Beech 58
N1604M is a Beech 58, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1983. It has 6 seats. It is registered to an individual in Bessemer, Alabama. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 5, 2025 and expires on May 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated January 31, 2024.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Beech
- Model
- 58 · all 58s 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 58 Baron 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
- TH1359
- 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 · Cont Motor IO 520 SERIES · 285 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1983
- Cruising speed
- 165 mph
- Transponder code
- A0F49E (octal 50172236)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- May 5, 2025
- Expires
- May 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- May 5, 2025
- 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 · January 31, 2024
- FAA region
- SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00223034
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Mckinney John Merrill JR
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 5846 S Shades Crest Rd
Bessemer, AL 35022-4120
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 2
Connections how N1604M links to the rest of the register
- Beechcraft 58 Baron 1,295 registered
- Beech 17,448 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Continental IO-520 series 9,486 aircraft with this engine series · 285 hp
- Bessemer, AL 11 aircraft registered in this town
- Bessemer Ntl Airport · EKY
- Alabama 4,325 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Beechcraft 58 Baron 23 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Beechcraft 58 Baron 1,148 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Beechcraft 58 Baron 367 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Continental IO-520 series 30 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Continental IO-520 series 465 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N1604M, 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 Mckinney John Merrill JR, an individual, certificate issued May 5, 2025, expires May 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated January 31, 2024, 41 years after the 1983 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial TH1359 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N1604M was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cameron Balloons Us N-77 (serial 5942, cancelled May 22, 2007); Boeing E75 (serial 75-8302, cancelled December 22, 1971). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N1604M. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
This automated check reads the public federal record. Nothing here is a legal opinion, an appraisal or a statement about the aircraft's condition; a CLEAR line is a statement about the searched record, not the aircraft.
Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data