Textron Aviation Inc B300
N46KA is a Textron Aviation Inc B300, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turboprop engines, built in 2021. It has 19 seats. It is registered to Southern Ionics INC, a corporation in West Point, Mississippi. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 7, 2026 and expires on August 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for commuter, dated December 24, 2021.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Textron Aviation Inc
- Model
- B300 · all B300s 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 B300 King Air 350 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
- FL-1281
- 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 Canada PT6A-60A · 1050 hp
- Seats
- 19
- Year built
- 2021
- Transponder code
- A59824 (octal 51314044)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- August 7, 2026
- Expires
- August 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- August 7, 2026
- 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 · CommuterFAA certificate purpose code C (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · December 24, 2021
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01354797
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Southern Ionics 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
- 579 Commerce St
West Point, MS 39773-7543
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Connections how N46KA links to the rest of the register
- Beechcraft B300 King Air 350 784 registered
- Textron Aviation Inc 4,413 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-60A 1,179 aircraft with this engine series · 1050 hp
- Southern Ionics INC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- West Point, MS 11 aircraft registered in this town
- Mccharen Field · M83
- Mississippi 2,600 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Beechcraft B300 King Air 350 38 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Beechcraft B300 King Air 350 712 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Beechcraft B300 King Air 350 439 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-60A 2 airworthiness directives
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The public federal record on N46KA, 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 Southern Ionics INC, a corporation, certificate issued August 7, 2026, expires August 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for commuter, dated December 24, 2021, consistent with the 2021 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial FL-1281 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N46KA was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Jones David B RV-6A VANS AIRCRAFT (serial 60157, cancelled August 20, 2013). 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 N46KA: Accident on March 7, 2001 at Inyokern, CA: fatal, substantial damage (2 fatal). Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Jones RV-6A · operated under 091
the in-flight collision with mountainous terrain during a forced landing following a loss of engine power resulting from the pilot's inadequate weather evaluation, continued flight into icing weather conditions, his delay in carburetor heat use, and his delay in diverting to an alternate airport.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 26, 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 26, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data