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N40074

Beech C-45H

Valid Texas

N40074 is a Beech C-45H, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turboprop engines, built in 1954. It has 10 seats. It is registered to American Airpower Heritage Flying Museum INC, a corporation in Dallas, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 5, 1991 and expires on May 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 16, 1983.

Aircraft

Maker
Beech
Model
C-45H · all C-45Hs and related versions
Serial number
AF 834
Type
Fixed-wing, multi-engine
Power
Turboprop, 2 motors · P&W R-985 SERIES · 450 hp
Seats
10
Year built
1954
Cruising speed
165 mph
Transponder code
A4B00B (octal 51130013)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
September 5, 1991
Expires
May 31, 2028
Last FAA action
May 12, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · August 16, 1983
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
00540964

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
American Airpower Heritage Flying Museum INC
Type
Corporation
Address
PO Box 764769
Dallas, TX 75376-4769

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.

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N40074, 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 American Airpower Heritage Flying Museum INC, a corporation, certificate issued September 5, 1991, expires May 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 16, 1983, 29 years after the 1954 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]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial AF 834 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N40074 according to the deregistered file. [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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N40074. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.

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