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.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Beech
- Model
- TC-45J · all TC-45Js and related versions
- Serial number
- 23835
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors
- Seats
- 10
- Year built
- 1945
- Cruising speed
- 153 mph
- Transponder code
- A20D3A (octal 50406472)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 10, 2012
- Expires
- January 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 14, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · February 21, 1975
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00652132
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Blackhawk Aircraft Maintenance INC
- Type
- Corporation
- 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.
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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.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI94LA198 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