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N234H

Beech C-50

Valid Illinois

N234H is a Beech C-50, 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 Aurora, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 16, 1990 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated December 30, 1955.

Aircraft

Maker
Beech
Model
C-50 · all C-50s and related versions
Serial number
CH-133
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
A2180B (octal 50414013)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
April 16, 1990
Expires
January 31, 2030
Last FAA action
September 29, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · December 30, 1955
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
00172272

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Westphal Ronald R
Type
Individual
Address
1425 W Ogden
Aurora, IL 60504

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Earlier use of this number 1

1943-08-06Fleet 2 · Valid registration

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N234H, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Westphal Ronald R, an individual, certificate issued April 16, 1990, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate, dated December 30, 1955, consistent with the 1954 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial CH-133 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N234H was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Fleet 2 (serial 102, cancelled August 6, 1943). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N234H. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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