Beech D18S
N197L is a Beech D18S, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1947. It has 10 seats. It is registered to American Airpower Heritage Flying Museum, a corporation in Dallas, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 6, 2016 and expires on September 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated March 28, 1956.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Beech
- Model
- D18S · all D18Ss and related versions
- Serial number
- A-361
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors · P&W R-985 SERIES · 450 hp
- Seats
- 10
- Year built
- 1947
- Cruising speed
- 165 mph
- Transponder code
- A18326 (octal 50301446)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 6, 2016
- Expires
- September 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- March 25, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · March 28, 1956
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00363040
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- American Airpower Heritage Flying Museum
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 764769
Dallas, TX 75376-4769
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.
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The public federal record on N197L, 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 American Airpower Heritage Flying Museum, a corporation, certificate issued September 6, 2016, expires September 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated March 28, 1956, 9 years after the 1947 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial A-361 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N197L 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 N197L. 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 August 27, 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