Beech B19
N1996W is a Beech B19, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1974. It has 4 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Mitchell, Indiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 23, 2025 and expires on August 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated April 11, 1974.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Beech
- Model
- B19 · all B19s and related versions
- Serial number
- MB-677
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1974
- Cruising speed
- 116 mph
- Transponder code
- A18CD9 (octal 50306331)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 23, 2025
- Expires
- August 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- August 23, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · April 11, 1974
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00673120
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Melton Joshua D
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 1082 Bryantsville Rd
Mitchell, IN 47446-5203 - Co-owners
- Zeitrogel Blade M
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 N1996W, 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 Melton Joshua D, a co-owned, certificate issued August 23, 2025, expires August 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated April 11, 1974, consistent with the 1974 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial MB-677 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N1996W 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 N1996W. 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