Beech B-55
N13RJ is a Beech B-55, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine. It has 6 seats. It is registered to an individual in Hixson, Tennessee. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 29, 2024 and expires on May 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated June 18, 1979.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Beech
- Model
- B-55 · all B-55s and related versions
- Serial number
- TC-2247
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 157 mph
- Transponder code
- A07A58 (octal 50075130)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 29, 2024
- Expires
- May 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- May 29, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · June 18, 1979
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00520740
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Read William L
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 6502 Fairview Rd
Hixson, TN 37343-3103
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.
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The public federal record on N13RJ, 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 Read William L, an individual, certificate issued May 29, 2024, expires May 31, 2031. 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 TC-2247 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N13RJ 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]
1 NTSB record under N13RJ: Accident on March 16, 2000 at Ogden, UT: 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 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Beech B55 · operated under 091
Inadvertent landing gear retraction by person(s) undetermined. A factor was the inadequate supervision of the flight by the flight instructor.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DEN00LA060 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through August 27, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data