Beech C23
N23824 is a Beech C23, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1977. It has 4 seats. It is registered to American Lighthouse Transportation INC, a corporation in Dry Ridge, Kentucky. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 17, 2024 and expires on May 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated December 28, 1977.
Where is it now Last seen October 26 at 9:24 am.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Beech
- Model
- C23 · all C23s 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 C23 Sundowner 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
- M-1999
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (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, 1 motor · Lycoming O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1977
- Cruising speed
- 116 mph
- Transponder code
- A228F3 (octal 50424363)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- May 17, 2024
- Expires
- May 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- May 17, 2024
- 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 · Normal; UtilityFAA certificate purpose code NU (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · December 28, 1977
- FAA region
- CentralFAA region code 3 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00012422
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- American Lighthouse Transportation 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
- 205 Jenni Ln
Dry Ridge, KY 41035-7657
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N23824 links to the rest of the register
- Beechcraft C23 Sundowner 456 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
- Lycoming O-360 / VO-360 series 11,930 aircraft with this engine series · 180 hp
- American Lighthouse Transportation INC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Dry Ridge, KY 15 aircraft registered in this town
- Kentucky 2,981 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Beechcraft C23 Sundowner 2 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Beechcraft C23 Sundowner 104 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Beechcraft C23 Sundowner 48 supplemental type certificates
- Where N23824 is now · Last seen October 26 at 9:24 am.
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The public federal record on N23824, 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 American Lighthouse Transportation INC, a corporation, certificate issued May 17, 2024, expires May 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated December 28, 1977, consistent with the 1977 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial M-1999 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N23824 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N23824. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 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, October 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data