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A Beechcraft 95 Travel Air and Baron 55, the same model family as N1853B
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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026
N1853B

Beech 95-B55 (T42A)

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesNew York

N1853B is a Beech 95-B55 (T42A), a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1981. It has 6 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Syracuse, New York. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 18, 2025 and expires on December 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 25, 1981.

Where is it now Last seen October 15 at 3:48 pm.

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Aircraft

Maker
Beech
Model
95-B55 (T42A) · all 95-B55 (T42A)s 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 95 Travel Air and Baron 55 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
TC-2420
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
Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 2 motors · Cont Motor I0-470 SERIES · 260 hp
Seats
6
Year built
1981
Cruising speed
165 mph
Transponder code
A15602 (octal 50253002)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
December 18, 2025
Expires
December 31, 2032
Last FAA action
December 18, 2025
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 · September 25, 1981
FAA region
EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00963230

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Altius Aviation LLC
Type
Co-ownedFAA type of owner code 4 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Address
113 Tuskegee Rd
Syracuse, NY 13211-1332
Co-owners
Johnson Nathaniel M K / Viper Trends LLC

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Documents on file 0

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

Connections how N1853B links to the rest of the register

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Engine
Place
Live

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Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N1853B, 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 Altius Aviation LLC, a co-owned, certificate issued December 18, 2025, expires December 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated September 25, 1981, consistent with the 1981 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial TC-2420 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N1853B 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 N1853B. 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 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data