Beech 76
N256J is a Beech 76, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1978. It has 4 seats. It is registered to D Gordon Aviation INC, a corporation in La Jolla, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 22, 2021 and expires on October 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated November 9, 1978.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Beech
- Model
- 76 · all 76s 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. The Duchess twin. This is how the Beechcraft 76 Duchess 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
- ME-107
- 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
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 2 motors · Lycoming O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1978
- Transponder code
- A26E90 (octal 50467220)
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 22, 2021
- Expires
- October 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 16, 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 · November 9, 1978
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00860866
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- D Gordon Aviation 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
- PO Box 1726
La Jolla, CA 92038-1726
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
Connections how N256J links to the rest of the register
- Beechcraft 76 Duchess 151 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 11,929 aircraft with this engine series · 180 hp
- D Gordon Aviation INC 7 aircraft in the fleet
- La Jolla, CA 59 aircraft registered in this town
- California 27,642 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Beechcraft 76 Duchess 2 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Beechcraft 76 Duchess 230 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Beechcraft 76 Duchess 34 supplemental type certificates
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The public federal record on N256J, 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 D Gordon Aviation INC, a corporation, certificate issued October 22, 2021, expires October 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated November 9, 1978, consistent with the 1978 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial ME-107 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N256J was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Bellanca 7GCBC (serial 1212-80, cancelled October 25, 2003). 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 N256J: Accident on November 5, 2001 at Hawley, MN: minor 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: Bellanca 7GCBC · operated under 091
the failure of the pilot to maintain directional control. A factor was the trees.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 26, 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 26, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data