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N286

Cessna 501

Valid New York

N286 is a Cessna 501, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbofan engines, built in 1979. It has 8 seats. It is registered to Freefall Express INC, a corporation in Gardiner, New York. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 13, 2020 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated May 31, 1979.

Aircraft

Maker
Cessna
Model
501
Serial number
501-0104
Type
Fixed-wing, multi-engine
Power
Turbofan, 2 motors · P&W Canada JT15D-1 · 2,200 lb thrust
Seats
8
Year built
1979
Transponder code
A2E444 (octal 50562104)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
April 13, 2020
Expires
April 30, 2030
Last FAA action
October 20, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · May 31, 1979
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
00030372

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Freefall Express INC
Type
Corporation
Address
PO Box 269
Gardiner, NY 12525-0269

Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.

Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Earlier use of this number 3

2012-10-18Douglas DC-7C · Registration expired, pending cancellation
1931-12-11Boeing 40B · Valid registration
1929-09-19Standard J-1 · Valid registration

Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, September 25, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data