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.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Beech
- Model
- 76 · all 76s and related versions
- Serial number
- ME-107
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors · Lycoming O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1978
- Transponder code
- A26E90 (octal 50467220)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 22, 2021
- Expires
- October 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 16, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · November 9, 1978
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00860866
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- D Gordon Aviation INC
- Type
- Corporation
- 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
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
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.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI02LA038 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