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N4490M

Beech B100

Valid Texas

N4490M is a Beech B100, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turboprop engines, built in 1979. It has 11 seats. It is registered to Indian Ink Leasing INC, a corporation in Amarillo, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 19, 2020 and expires on October 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated January 3, 1984.

Aircraft

Maker
Beech
Model
B100 · all B100s and related versions
Serial number
BE-64
Type
Fixed-wing, multi-engine
Power
Turboprop, 2 motors · Airesearch TPE331 SERIES · 904 hp
Seats
11
Year built
1979
Cruising speed
210 mph
Transponder code
A56E70 (octal 51267160)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
October 19, 2020
Expires
October 31, 2027
Last FAA action
June 23, 2026
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · January 3, 1984
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
00362694

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Indian Ink Leasing INC
Type
Corporation
Address
PO Box 9254
Amarillo, TX 79105-9254

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N4490M, 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 Indian Ink Leasing INC, a corporation, certificate issued October 19, 2020, expires October 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated January 3, 1984, 5 years after the 1979 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 BE-64 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N4490M 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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N4490M: Accident on June 15, 2009 at Rapid City, SD: serious injuries. 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

CEN09LA388Accident on June 15, 2009 at Rapid City, SD: serious injuries.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Beech B100 · operated under 135

The flight crewmembers’ failure to secure the patient using the available over-the-shoulder restraints and the encounter with clear-air turbulence during cruise descent.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN09LA388 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