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. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).
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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-677
- 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
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1974
- Cruising speed
- 116 mph
- Transponder code
- A18CD9 (octal 50306331)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- August 23, 2025
- Expires
- August 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- August 23, 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 · Normal; UtilityFAA certificate purpose code NU (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · April 11, 1974
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00673120
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Melton Joshua D
- Type
- Co-ownedFAA type of owner code 4 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- 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 1
Connections how N1996W links to the rest of the register
- Beechcraft B-19 Sport 147 registered
- Beech 17,447 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 27,311 aircraft with this engine series · 180 hp
- Mitchell, IN 3 aircraft registered in this town
- Indiana 5,697 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 29 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming O-320 series 349 reports since 1995
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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]
1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (October 27, 2026). [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 29, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 29, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 29, 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 29, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data