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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026Beech D-45
N256N is a Beech D-45, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Port Orange, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 6, 2001 and expires on September 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated December 16, 1960.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Beech
- Model
- D-45 · all D-45s 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 D-45 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
- BG-398
- 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 · Cont Motor O-470 SERIES · 230 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 141 mph
- Transponder code
- A26EF4 (octal 50467364)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- December 6, 2001
- Expires
- September 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 2, 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 · December 16, 1960
- FAA region
- SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00202952
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Nichols Richard C
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 1834 Spruce Creek Blvd
Port Orange, FL 32128-6778
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 N256N links to the rest of the register
- Beechcraft D-45 75 registered
- Beech 17,448 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Continental O-470 series 12,779 aircraft with this engine series · 230 hp
- Port Orange, FL 442 aircraft registered in this town
- Florida 21,706 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Beechcraft D-45 7 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Beechcraft D-45 5 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Beechcraft D-45 56 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Continental O-470 series 23 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Continental O-470 series 148 reports since 1995
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Records check free · 0 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N256N, 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 Nichols Richard C, an individual, certificate issued December 6, 2001, expires September 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial BG-398 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N256N 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 N256N. 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 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data