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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 13, 2026Beech B-60
N1551L is a Beech B-60, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1976. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Sky West Aviation INC Trustee, a corporation in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 23, 2020 and expires on September 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated June 15, 1976.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Beech
- Model
- B-60 · all B-60s 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 B-60 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
- P-391
- 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 TI0-541 SER · 310 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1976
- Cruising speed
- 112 mph
- Transponder code
- A0DF48 (octal 50157510)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- September 23, 2020
- Expires
- September 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 17, 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 · June 15, 1976
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00840910
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sky West Aviation INC Trustee
- 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
- 2523 Stieglitz Ave SE
Albuquerque, NM 87106-9605
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N1551L links to the rest of the register
- Beechcraft B-60 186 registered
- Beech 17,443 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming TIO-541 series 273 aircraft with this engine series · 310 hp
- Sky West Aviation INC Trustee 287 aircraft in the fleet
- Albuquerque, NM 1,181 aircraft registered in this town
- Albuquerque International Sunport · ABQ
- Double Eagle II Airport · AEG
- New Mexico 3,114 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Beechcraft B-60 2 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Beechcraft B-60 71 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Beechcraft B-60 44 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming TIO-541 series 18 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming TIO-541 series 22 reports since 1995
- Report filed on this aircraft: Pump, leaking · 1997-11-17
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The public federal record on N1551L, 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 Sky West Aviation INC Trustee, a corporation, certificate issued September 23, 2020, expires September 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated June 15, 1976, consistent with the 1976 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial P-391 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N1551L 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 N1551L: Accident on September 8, 2004 at Casper, WY: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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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 B-60 · operated under 091
the missing nose gear assembly bolt, spacer and nut resulting in a gear collapse due to improper maintenance procedures. Contributing to the accident was the collision with the storm drain.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 13, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 13, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 13, 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 13, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data