Beech C-45H
N165ZA is a Beech C-45H, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turboprop engines, built in 1953. It has 10 seats. It is registered to an individual in Newnan, Georgia. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 27, 2023 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 24, 1991.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Beech
- Model
- C-45H · all C-45Hs and related versions
- Serial number
- AF543
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turboprop, 2 motors · P&W R-985 SERIES · 450 hp
- Seats
- 10
- Year built
- 1953
- Cruising speed
- 165 mph
- Transponder code
- A10681 (octal 50203201)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 27, 2023
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- January 31, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · September 24, 1991
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00592140
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Hoffman Carl A
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 28 Woodland Trl
Newnan, GA 30263-3328
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 N165ZA, 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 Hoffman Carl A, an individual, certificate issued January 27, 2023, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated September 24, 1991, 38 years after the 1953 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 AF543 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N165ZA 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 N165ZA: Accident on January 11, 1999 at St. Joseph, MO: 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 BE-C-45H · operated under 091
the pilot not maintaining directional control during the landing rollout. A factor in this accident was the patchy snow on the runway.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI99LA063 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
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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data