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A Beechcraft 1900 Airliner, the same model family as N171CJ
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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 4, 2026
N171CJ

Beech 1900D

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesAlaska

N171CJ is a Beech 1900D, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turboprop engines, built in 1993. It has 19 seats. It is registered to Bering Air INC, a corporation in Nome, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 28, 2020 and expires on October 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for commuter, dated November 10, 1993.

Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Bering Air INC, so it can be flown for hire.

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Aircraft

Maker
Beech
Model
1900D · all 1900Ds 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 1900 Airliner 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
UE-71
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 Canada PT6A-6 SERIES · 950 hp
Fuel
Jet A
Seats
19
Year built
1993
Transponder code
A11D1F (octal 50216437)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
October 28, 2020
Expires
October 31, 2027
Last FAA action
March 24, 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 · CommuterFAA certificate purpose code C (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · November 10, 1993
FAA region
AlaskanFAA region code 5 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00854242

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Bering Air INC
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
PO Box 1650
Nome, AK 99762-1650
Charter N171CJ with Bering Air INC:

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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 N171CJ, 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 Bering Air INC, a corporation, certificate issued October 28, 2020, expires October 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for commuter, dated November 10, 1993, consistent with the 1993 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial UE-71 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N171CJ 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 N171CJ. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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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 November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 4, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data