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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 4, 2026Beech 65-B80
N132BA is a Beech 65-B80, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine. It has 9 seats. It is registered to Bemidji Aviation Services INC, a corporation in Bemidji, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 11, 2013 and expires on January 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated May 6, 1988.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Bemidji Aviation Services, Inc., so it can be flown for hire.
Where is it now Last seen yesterday at 8:07 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Beech
- Model
- 65-B80 · all 65-B80s and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Beechcraft 65 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- LD-331
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engineFAA type of aircraft code 5 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 2 motors · Lycoming IO-720 · 400 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 9
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 174 mph
- Transponder code
- A082B9 (octal 50101271)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- January 11, 2013
- Expires
- January 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · May 6, 1988
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00314171
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bemidji Aviation Services INC
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 4125 Hangar Dr NW
Bemidji, MN 56601-6243
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.
Connections how N132BA links to the rest of the register
- Beechcraft 65 201 registered
- Beech 17,446 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Bemidji Aviation Services, Inc. · charter operator
- Lycoming IO-720 120 aircraft with this engine series · 400 hp
- Bemidji Aviation Services INC 46 aircraft in the fleet
- Bemidji, MN 109 aircraft registered in this town
- Bemidji Regional · BJI
- Minnesota 6,942 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Beechcraft 65 55 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Beechcraft 65 152 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Beechcraft 65 389 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming IO-720 25 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming IO-720 36 reports since 1995
- Report filed on this aircraft: Motor, damaged · 2011-11-08
- Where N132BA is now · Last seen yesterday at 8:07 pm.
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N132BA.json.
Records check free · 1 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N132BA, read the way a buyer, lender or insurer reads it: FAA registration, prior tail numbers keyed on the serial number, reuse of the tail number, recent registry filings, and the NTSB accident record under this and every earlier registration.
Valid registration to Bemidji Aviation Services INC, a corporation, certificate issued January 11, 2013, expires January 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial LD-331 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N132BA according to the deregistered file. [2]
No bills of sale, loans or releases have reached the registry in recent weeks. The index covers only recent filings; older liens are in the records file. [3]
2 NTSB records under N132BA: Accident on February 24, 2010 at Minneapolis, MN: no injuries, minor damage. Accident on September 21, 1989 at Littlefork, MN: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
These live in the FAA aircraft records file (every document ever filed against the aircraft) and, for larger aircraft, the International Registry. Part of the full report.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Hawker Beechcraft Corp. 65-B80 · operated under 135
The pilot not setting the parking brake adequately while holding for departure. Contributing to the accident was the pilot being distracted while doing his paperwork.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Beech 80 · operated under 135
TOTAL FAILURE OF THE ELECTRICAL SYSTEM DURING IFR OPERATIONS & THE AIRCRAFT'S COLLISION WITH A ROCK FENCE DURING THE SUBSEQUENT GEAR-UP PRECAUTIONARY LANDING.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 4, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data