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Beech TC-45J
N231LJ is a Beech TC-45J, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1945. It has 10 seats. It is registered to Blackhawk Aircraft Maintenance INC, a corporation in Janesville, Wisconsin. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 10, 2012 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated February 21, 1975.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Beech
- Model
- TC-45J · all TC-45Js 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 TC-45 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
- 23835
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engineFAA type of aircraft code 5 (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, 2 motors
- Seats
- 10
- Year built
- 1945
- Cruising speed
- 153 mph
- Transponder code
- A20D3A (octal 50406472)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- January 10, 2012
- Expires
- January 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 14, 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 · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · February 21, 1975
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00652132
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Blackhawk Aircraft Maintenance INC
- 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
- PO Box 1815
Janesville, WI 53547-1815
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 N231LJ links to the rest of the register
- Beechcraft TC-45 7 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
- Blackhawk Aircraft Maintenance INC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Janesville, WI 72 aircraft registered in this town
- Southern Wisconsin Regional · JVL
- Wisconsin 6,161 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Beechcraft TC-45 13 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Beechcraft TC-45 5 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Beechcraft TC-45 287 supplemental type certificates
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The public federal record on N231LJ, 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 Blackhawk Aircraft Maintenance INC, a corporation, certificate issued January 10, 2012, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated February 21, 1975, 30 years after the 1945 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 23835 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N231LJ 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]
1 NTSB record under N231LJ: Accident on June 13, 1994 at Belleville, MI: no injuries, substantial damage. 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: Beech 18 · operated under 091
the failure of the fuel line on the unique STC'd engine installation. A related factor is the improper installation of a fuel line by company maintenance personnel.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 3, 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 3, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data