Beech 99A
N326CA is a Beech 99A, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turboprop engines, built in 1970. It has 17 seats. It is registered to Alpine Aviation INC, a corporation in Provo, Utah. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 7, 2004 and expires on February 28, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated June 21, 1991.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Alpine Aviation, Inc., so it can be flown for hire.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Beech
- Model
- 99A · all 99As 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 99 Airliner 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
- U-135
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engineFAA type of aircraft code 5 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- TurbopropFAA type of engine code 2 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 2 motors · P&W PT6A SER · 750 hp
- Seats
- 17
- Year built
- 1970
- Transponder code
- A384CD (octal 50702315)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- April 7, 2004
- Expires
- February 28, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 7, 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 · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · June 21, 1991
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00061953
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Alpine Aviation 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
- 1177 Alpine Air Way
Provo, UT 84601-8270
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 N326CA links to the rest of the register
- Beechcraft 99 Airliner 34 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
- Alpine Aviation, Inc. · charter operator
- Pratt & Whitney PT6A series 2,218 aircraft with this engine series · 750 hp
- Alpine Aviation INC 77 aircraft in the fleet
- Holds an FAA aircraft dealer certificate · valid to August 9, 2027
- Provo, UT 145 aircraft registered in this town
- Provo Municipal · PVU
- Utah 8,355 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Beechcraft 99 Airliner 2 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Beechcraft 99 Airliner 417 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Beechcraft 99 Airliner 40 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Pratt & Whitney PT6A series 2 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Pratt & Whitney PT6A series 8,208 reports since 1995
- Report filed on this aircraft: Powerpack, failed · 2017-10-04
- Report filed on this aircraft: Unknown, malfunctioned · 2017-09-26
- Report filed on this aircraft: Powerpack, failed · 2017-09-26
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The public federal record on N326CA, 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 Alpine Aviation INC, a corporation, certificate issued April 7, 2004, expires February 28, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 21, 1991, 21 years after the 1970 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 U-135 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N326CA 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]
2 NTSB records under N326CA: Accident on January 19, 2017 at Billings, MT: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on July 28, 1982 at Abilene, TX: no 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Beech 99 · operated under 135
The fatigue failure of the left main landing gear (MLG) actuator piston rod, which prevented the hydraulic system from producing pressure to control the MLG’s position and led to the right MLG collapsing during landing.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Beech B99A · operated under 091
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data