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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 29, 2026Beech E18S-9700
N404T is a Beech E18S-9700, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1959. It has 10 seats. It is registered to Greatest Generation Naval Museum, a corporation in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 11, 2013 and expires on January 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Beech
- Model
- E18S-9700 · all E18S-9700s 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 E18 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
- BA-432
- 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
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 2 motors · P&W R-985 SERIES · 450 hp
- Seats
- 10
- Year built
- 1959
- Cruising speed
- 165 mph
- Transponder code
- A4BD26 (octal 51136446)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- January 11, 2013
- Expires
- January 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 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
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00581124
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Greatest Generation Naval Museum
- 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
- 755 Aviation Way
Colorado Springs, CO 80916-2740
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No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N404T links to the rest of the register
- Beechcraft E18 58 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
- Pratt & Whitney R-985 series 1,593 aircraft with this engine series · 450 hp
- Greatest Generation Naval Museum 12 aircraft in the fleet
- Colorado Springs, CO 555 aircraft registered in this town
- City Of Colorado Springs Municipal · COS
- Meadow Lake Airport · FLY
- Colorado 7,453 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Beechcraft E18 13 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Beechcraft E18 55 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Beechcraft E18 204 supplemental type certificates
- Failure reports on the Pratt & Whitney R-985 series 80 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N404T, 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 Greatest Generation Naval Museum, a corporation, certificate issued January 11, 2013, expires January 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate; the FAA file gives no certificate date. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial BA-432 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N404T 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N404T. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 29, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 29, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 29, 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 29, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data