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A Beechcraft 300 King Air 300, the same model family as N166SA
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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 30, 2026
N166SA

Beech 300

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesOhio

N166SA is a Beech 300, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turboprop engines, built in 1988. It has 19 seats. It is registered to Clear Skies LTD, a corporation in Cincinnati, Ohio. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 30, 2014 and expires on May 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated January 8, 1999.

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Aircraft

Maker
Beech
Model
300 · all 300s and related versions
Built of
aluminium
The airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Beechcraft 300 King Air 300 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
FA-166
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
TurbopropFAA type of engine code 2 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 2 motors · P&W PT6A SER · 750 hp
Seats
19
Year built
1988
Cruising speed
142 mph
Transponder code
A10989 (octal 50204611)

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 30, 2014
Expires
May 31, 2027
Last FAA action
January 22, 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 · January 8, 1999
FAA region
Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00403646

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Clear Skies LTD
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
11148 Woodward Ln
Cincinnati, OH 45241-1857

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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 1

1995-09-12Cessna 404 · exported to Canada · Valid registration

Connections how N166SA links to the rest of the register

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Engine
Owner
Place
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The public federal record on N166SA, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Clear Skies LTD, a corporation, certificate issued May 30, 2014, expires May 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated January 8, 1999, 11 years after the 1988 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]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial FA-166 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N166SA was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 404 (serial 4040634, cancelled September 12, 1995). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N166SA. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data