Beech C90
N477M is a Beech C90, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turboprop engines, built in 1987. It has 9 seats. It is registered to Aircraft Unlimited INC, a corporation in Pierre, South Dakota. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 3, 2019 and expires on May 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated October 20, 1987.
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Capital City Air Carrier INC, so it can be flown for hire; the registered owner is someone else, which is usual for a managed aircraft.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Beech
- Model
- C90 · all C90s 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 C90 King Air C90 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
- LJ-1154
- 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-21 · 550 hp
- Seats
- 9
- Year built
- 1987
- Cruising speed
- 201 mph
- Transponder code
- A5DC2E (octal 51356056)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- May 3, 2019
- Expires
- May 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 4, 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 · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · October 20, 1987
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00363951
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Aircraft Unlimited 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
- 4000 Airport Rd
Pierre, SD 57501-5605
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 2
Connections how N477M links to the rest of the register
- Beechcraft C90 King Air C90 607 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
- Capital City Air Carrier INC · charter operator
- Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-21 77 aircraft with this engine series · 550 hp
- Aircraft Unlimited INC 4 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Pierre, SD 70 aircraft registered in this town
- Pierre Regional · PIR
- South Dakota 2,273 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Beechcraft C90 King Air C90 59 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Beechcraft C90 King Air C90 787 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Beechcraft C90 King Air C90 386 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-21 5 airworthiness directives
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The public federal record on N477M, 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 Aircraft Unlimited INC, a corporation, certificate issued May 3, 2019, expires May 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated October 20, 1987, consistent with the 1987 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial LJ-1154 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N477M was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Mooney M-18C (serial 232, cancelled October 1, 2012); Stinson RELIANT (serial 8522, cancelled August 26, 1932). 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 N477M: Accident on May 11, 1985 at Greenville, AL: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Great Lakes 2T-1A-2 · operated under 091
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 27, 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 27, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data