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N16CL

Beech E18S

Valid Delaware

N16CL is a Beech E18S, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1955. It has 10 seats. It is registered to Big Sky Aviation, a corporation in Wilmington, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 28, 2022 and expires on December 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated February 4, 1956.

Aircraft

Maker
Beech
Model
E18S · all E18Ss and related versions
Serial number
BA-67
Type
Fixed-wing, multi-engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors · P&W R-985 SERIES · 450 hp
Seats
10
Year built
1955
Cruising speed
165 mph
Transponder code
A0EF92 (octal 50167622)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
December 28, 2022
Expires
December 31, 2029
Last FAA action
September 22, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · February 4, 1956
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
00850145

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Big Sky Aviation
Type
Corporation
Address
105 Silverside Rd Ste 105
Wilmington, DE 19809-1727

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N16CL, 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 Big Sky Aviation, a corporation, certificate issued December 28, 2022, expires December 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated February 4, 1956, consistent with the 1955 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial BA-67 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N16CL according to the deregistered file. [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 N16CL. 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 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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