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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026Beech C24R
N18996 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 an individual in Hansville, South Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 18, 2025 and expires on March 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 29, 1977.
Where is it now Last seen October 14 at 3:58 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Beech
- Model
- C24R · all C24Rs 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 C24 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
- MC-553
- 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 I0360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1977
- Cruising speed
- 178 mph
- Transponder code
- A165CD (octal 50262715)
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 18, 2025
- Expires
- March 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- March 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 · December 29, 1977
- FAA region
- SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00362850
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Black Bennett
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 512 Kelleybelle Rd
Hansville, SC 29550-6768
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.
Connections how N18996 links to the rest of the register
- Beechcraft C24 176 registered
- Beech 17,448 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming IO-360 series 8,562 aircraft with this engine series · 180 hp
- Hansville, SC 1 aircraft registered in this town
- South Carolina 3,111 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Beechcraft C24 2 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Beechcraft C24 39 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Beechcraft C24 43 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming IO-360 series 42 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming IO-360 series 39 reports since 1995
- Where N18996 is now · Last seen October 14 at 3:58 pm.
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N18996.json.
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The public federal record on N18996, 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 Black Bennett, an individual, certificate issued March 18, 2025, expires March 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated December 29, 1977, consistent with the 1977 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial MC-553 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N18996 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 N18996. 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 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data