Beech B50
N22BX is a Beech B50, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1954. It has 6 seats. It is registered to an individual in Gillespie, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 8, 2016 and expires on December 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated July 30, 2007.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Beech
- Model
- B50 · all B50s and related versions
- Serial number
- CH-46
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors · Lycoming GO-480 SERIES · 295 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1954
- Cruising speed
- 167 mph
- Transponder code
- A1DED7 (octal 50357327)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 8, 2016
- Expires
- December 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · July 30, 2007
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00110020
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Cole K Matthew
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 12979 Hickory Grove Rd
Gillespie, IL 62033-3119
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.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N22BX, 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 Cole K Matthew, an individual, certificate issued December 8, 2016, expires December 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated July 30, 2007, 53 years after the 1954 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 CH-46 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N22BX was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Robinson Helicopter R22 BETA (serial 1050, cancelled September 6, 2012). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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]
1 NTSB record under N22BX: Accident on September 10, 1995 at Akron, OH: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Robinson R-22 BETA · operated under 091
the pilot's failure to maintain control of the rotor RPM, and his improper remedial action, which resulted in the rotor stalling. A contributing factor was the pilot's lack of recent experience in helicopters, and his lack of total experience in make and model.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for NYC95FA221 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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