Beech T42
N261S is a Beech T42, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1965. It has 6 seats. It is registered to an individual in Jennings, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 7, 2014 and expires on May 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated March 7, 1996.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Beech
- Model
- T42 · all T42s and related versions
- Serial number
- 65-12696
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors · Cont Motor O-470 SERIES · 230 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1965
- Transponder code
- A28444 (octal 50502104)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 7, 2014
- Expires
- May 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · March 7, 1996
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00204432
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bird Frank III
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 435 NW 18Th Pl
Jennings, FL 32053-2980
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.
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The public federal record on N261S, 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 Bird Frank III, an individual, certificate issued May 7, 2014, expires May 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated March 7, 1996, 31 years after the 1965 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 65-12696 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N261S 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]
1 NTSB record under N261S: Incident on September 2, 1982 at Appleton, WI: no injuries, minor 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: Swearingen SA-226TC · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI82IA331 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data