Beech B19
N18966 is a Beech B19, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1977. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Big Bend Community College, a government body in Moses Lake, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 30, 2000 and expires on November 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated November 1, 1977.
Where is it now Last seen Monday at 1:43 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Beech
- Model
- B19 · all B19s 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 B-19 Sport 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
- MB-869
- 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 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1977
- Cruising speed
- 116 mph
- Transponder code
- A16564 (octal 50262544)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- March 30, 2000
- Expires
- November 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 15, 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 · Normal; UtilityFAA certificate purpose code NU (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · November 1, 1977
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00882810
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Big Bend Community College (university or college with a flight programme: its whole fleet and safety record)
- Type
- GovernmentFAA type of owner code 5 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 7662 Chanute St
Moses Lake, WA 98837
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Connections how N18966 links to the rest of the register
- Beechcraft B-19 Sport 147 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-320 series 27,305 aircraft with this engine series · 180 hp
- Big Bend Community College 33 aircraft in the fleet
- Moses Lake, WA 170 aircraft registered in this town
- Grant County International · MWH
- Moses Lake Municipal · W20
- Washington 10,664 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Beechcraft B-19 Sport 2 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Beechcraft B-19 Sport 13 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Beechcraft B-19 Sport 32 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming O-320 series 30 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming O-320 series 349 reports since 1995
- Where N18966 is now · Last seen Monday at 1:43 pm.
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The public federal record on N18966, 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 Big Bend Community College, a government body, certificate issued March 30, 2000, expires November 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated November 1, 1977, consistent with the 1977 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial MB-869 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N18966 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: A L Hackenberger HACKENBERGER H (serial 5H-1, cancelled date not given). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N18966. 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 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 12, 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 12, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data