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N234TX

Beech T-34A

Valid Illinois

N234TX is a Beech T-34A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Russell Military Museum, a corporation in Zion, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 8, 2023 and expires on December 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated August 11, 1959.

Aircraft

Maker
Beech
Model
T-34A · all T-34As and related versions
Serial number
52-8276
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor O-470 SERIES · 230 hp
Seats
2
Year built
Not given
Cruising speed
141 mph
Transponder code
A2191B (octal 50414433)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
December 8, 2023
Expires
December 31, 2030
Last FAA action
December 8, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · August 11, 1959
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
00253517

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Russell Military Museum
Type
Corporation
Address
43363 N US Highway 41
Zion, IL 60099-9424

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Documents on file 0

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

Records check free · 0 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N234TX, 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 Russell Military Museum, a corporation, certificate issued December 8, 2023, expires December 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

NOTEAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 52-8276 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N234TX according to the deregistered file. [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 N234TX. 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