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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 26, 2026Beech A45
N268AF is a Beech A45, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1961. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Apogee Flight INC, a corporation in Bellingham, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 25, 2018 and expires on October 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated February 15, 1961.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Beech
- Model
- A45 · all A45s 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 T-34 Mentor, the Navy's and Air Force's trainer. This is how the Beechcraft A45 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
- G-828
- 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
- 1961
- Cruising speed
- 141 mph
- Transponder code
- A29CBB (octal 50516273)
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 25, 2018
- 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 · February 15, 1961
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00732367
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Apogee Flight 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
- 2950 Newmarket St # 101-133
Bellingham, WA 98226-3872
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 N268AF links to the rest of the register
- Beechcraft A45 167 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
- Continental O-470 series 12,779 aircraft with this engine series · 230 hp
- Apogee Flight INC 3 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Bellingham, WA 199 aircraft registered in this town
- Bellingham International · BLI
- Floathaven Seaplane Base · 0W7
- Washington 10,571 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Beechcraft A45 7 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Beechcraft A45 12 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Beechcraft A45 57 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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The public federal record on N268AF, 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 Apogee Flight INC, a corporation, certificate issued October 25, 2018, expires October 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate, dated February 15, 1961, consistent with the 1961 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial G-828 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N268AF was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Aviat Aircraft Inc A-1C-180 (serial 3268, cancelled August 23, 2017). 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 N268AF: Accident on June 7, 2024 at Deer Harbor, WA: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal). Details below. [4]
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AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Beech A45 · operated under 091
The pilot’s decision to perform an aerobatic maneuver at low level, and his misjudged entry altitude for the maneuver, which resulted in impact with water.
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