Beech C23
N174DQ is a Beech C23, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1981. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Simmons Aviation Services LLC, an LLC in Pawcatuck, Connecticut. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 23, 2026 and expires on June 30, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated July 29, 1981.
Where is it now Last seen October 15 at 6:41 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Beech
- Model
- C23 · all C23s 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 C23 Sundowner 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
- M2310
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (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, 1 motor · Lycoming 0-360-A1D · 180 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1981
- Cruising speed
- 116 mph
- Transponder code
- A12863 (octal 50224143)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- June 23, 2026
- Expires
- June 30, 2033
- Last FAA action
- June 23, 2026
- 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 · Normal; UtilityFAA certificate purpose code NU (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · July 29, 1981
- FAA region
- New EnglandFAA region code E (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00711226
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Simmons Aviation Services LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 353 Greenhaven Rd
Pawcatuck, CT 06379-2093
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N174DQ links to the rest of the register
- Beechcraft C23 Sundowner 456 registered
- Beech 17,443 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming O-360-A1D 1,057 aircraft with this engine series · 180 hp
- Simmons Aviation Services LLC 28 aircraft in the fleet
- Holds an FAA aircraft dealer certificate · valid to February 10, 2027
- Pawcatuck, CT 35 aircraft registered in this town
- Connecticut 1,612 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Beechcraft C23 Sundowner 2 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Beechcraft C23 Sundowner 104 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Beechcraft C23 Sundowner 48 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming O-360-A1D 25 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming O-360-A1D 82 reports since 1995
- Where N174DQ is now · Last seen October 15 at 6:41 pm.
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The public federal record on N174DQ, 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 Simmons Aviation Services LLC, an LLC, certificate issued June 23, 2026, expires June 30, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated July 29, 1981, consistent with the 1981 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial M2310 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N174DQ 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N174DQ. 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 November 11, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 11, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 11, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- 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 11, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data