Beech C23
N2397E 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 Maine Instrument Flight, a corporation in Augusta, Maine. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 2, 2015 and expires on June 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated March 2, 2000.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Beech
- Model
- C23 · all C23s and related versions
- Serial number
- M-1949
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1977
- Cruising speed
- 116 mph
- Transponder code
- A22D41 (octal 50426501)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 2, 2015
- Expires
- June 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- December 16, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · March 2, 2000
- FAA region
- New England
- FAA record id
- 00733633
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Maine Instrument Flight
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 2
Augusta, ME 04332-0002
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.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N2397E, 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 Maine Instrument Flight, a corporation, certificate issued June 2, 2015, expires June 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated March 2, 2000, 23 years after the 1977 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 M-1949 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N2397E was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Aeronca 7AC (serial 7AC-5976, cancelled November 21, 1951). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N2397E: Accident on March 30, 2016 at Frenchville, ME: 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 C23 · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain directional control during the takeoff roll on a runway contaminated with ice and snow, which resulted in a runway excursion and an impact with a snowbank.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for GAA16CA191 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