Beech B-55
N42P is a Beech B-55, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1979. It has 6 seats. It is registered to an individual in Hilltop Lakes, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 10, 2015 and expires on August 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated May 31, 1979.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Beech
- Model
- B-55 · all B-55s and related versions
- Serial number
- TC-2244
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1979
- Cruising speed
- 157 mph
- Transponder code
- A4FA8B (octal 51175213)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 10, 2015
- Expires
- August 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 3, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · May 31, 1979
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00641664
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Absher Jerry L
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 1740
Hilltop Lakes, TX 77871-1740
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
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N42P, 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 Absher Jerry L, an individual, certificate issued August 10, 2015, expires August 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated May 31, 1979, consistent with the 1979 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial TC-2244 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N42P was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Beech 35 (serial D-571, cancelled November 23, 1970). 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 N42P: Accident on November 19, 1986 at Beckley, WV: 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 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Beech BE-55 · operated under 135
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for BFO87LA010 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- 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