Beech B19
N2053L is a Beech B19, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1976. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Maine Instrument Flight, a corporation in Augusta, Maine. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 21, 2002 and expires on July 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated August 26, 1976.
Where is it now Last seen Thursday at 9:47 am.
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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-812
- 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
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1976
- Cruising speed
- 116 mph
- Transponder code
- A1A762 (octal 50323542)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- February 21, 2002
- Expires
- July 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 18, 2023
- 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 · August 26, 1976
- FAA region
- New EnglandFAA region code E (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00591112
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Maine Instrument Flight
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 215 Winthrop St
Augusta, ME 04330-5040
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 N2053L links to the rest of the register
- Beechcraft B-19 Sport 147 registered
- Beech 17,443 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 27,303 aircraft with this engine series · 180 hp
- Maine Instrument Flight 21 aircraft in the fleet
- Augusta, ME 41 aircraft registered in this town
- Augusta State Airport · AUG
- Augusta Seaplane Base · M00
- Maine 1,425 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 30 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming O-320 series 349 reports since 1995
- Where N2053L is now · Last seen Thursday at 9:47 am.
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The public federal record on N2053L, 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 Maine Instrument Flight, a corporation, certificate issued February 21, 2002, expires July 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated August 26, 1976, consistent with the 1976 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial MB-812 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N2053L 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 N2053L. 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 November 9, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 9, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 9, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 9, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data