Beech C24R
N18981 is a Beech C24R, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1977. It has 6 seats. It is registered to K V Aviation LTD, a corporation in Greenfield, Indiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 14, 2000 and expires on June 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated November 18, 1977.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Beech
- Model
- C24R · all C24Rs and related versions
- Serial number
- MC-545
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming I0360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1977
- Cruising speed
- 178 mph
- Transponder code
- A165A5 (octal 50262645)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). All codes
- Certificate issued
- January 14, 2000
- Expires
- June 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 11, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · November 18, 1977
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00272820
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- K V Aviation LTD
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). All codes
- Address
- 660 N 850 E
Greenfield, IN 46140-9433
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
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N18981, 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 K V Aviation LTD, a corporation, certificate issued January 14, 2000, expires June 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated November 18, 1977, consistent with the 1977 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial MC-545 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N18981 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: North American Aviation Inc NA-44 (serial 44-747, cancelled September 24, 1940). 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 N18981. 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 October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- 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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data