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Beech 1900C
N242AX is a Beech 1900C, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turboprop engines, built in 1989. It has 19 seats. It is registered to Tailwind Investments LLC, an LLC in Anchorage, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 9, 2020 and expires on October 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated June 29, 1989.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Alaska Central Express INC, so it can be flown for hire; the registered owner is someone else, which is usual for a managed aircraft.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Beech
- Model
- 1900C · all 1900Cs 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 1900 Airliner 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
- UC-72
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engineFAA type of aircraft code 5 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- TurbopropFAA type of engine code 2 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 2 motors · P&W Canada PT6A-60A · 1050 hp
- Seats
- 19
- Year built
- 1989
- Transponder code
- A23783 (octal 50433603)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- October 9, 2020
- Expires
- October 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 24, 2023
- 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 · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · June 29, 1989
- FAA region
- AlaskanFAA region code 5 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00084611
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Tailwind Investments LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 5901 Lockheed Ave
Anchorage, AK 99502-1094
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.
Connections how N242AX links to the rest of the register
- Beechcraft 1900 Airliner 157 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
- Alaska Central Express INC · charter operator
- Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-60A 1,179 aircraft with this engine series · 1050 hp
- Tailwind Investments LLC 11 aircraft in the fleet
- Anchorage, AK 2,529 aircraft registered in this town
- Lake Hood Airport · LHD
- Merrill Field · MRI
- Ted Stevens Anchorage International · ANC
- Bold Airport · A13
- 2 more landing places in town
- Alaska 9,143 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Beechcraft 1900 Airliner 68 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Beechcraft 1900 Airliner 9,079 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Beechcraft 1900 Airliner 272 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-60A 2 airworthiness directives
- Report filed on this aircraft: Unknown, unknown · 2023-06-01
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N242AX.json.
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The public federal record on N242AX, 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 Tailwind Investments LLC, an LLC, certificate issued October 9, 2020, expires October 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated June 29, 1989, consistent with the 1989 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial UC-72 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N242AX 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 N242AX. 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 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 27, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data