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N268AF

Beech 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.

Aircraft

Maker
Beech
Model
A45 · all A45s and related versions
Serial number
G-828
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 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 registration
Certificate issued
October 25, 2018
Expires
October 31, 2028
Last FAA action
June 16, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · February 15, 1961
FAA region
Northwest Mountain
FAA record id
00732367

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Apogee Flight INC
Type
Corporation
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

2017-08-23Aviat Aircraft Inc A-1C-180 · exported to Botswana · Valid registration

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Apogee Flight INC, a corporation, certificate issued October 25, 2018, expires October 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate, dated February 15, 1961, consistent with the 1961 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial G-828 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

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]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N268AF: Accident on June 7, 2024 at Deer Harbor, WA: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal). Details below. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

NTSB records 1

WPR24FA184Accident on June 7, 2024 at Deer Harbor, WA: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal).

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.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR24FA184 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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