Beech A23-24
N4789J is a Beech A23-24, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1967. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Renton, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 22, 2024 and expires on October 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated February 22, 1968.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Beech
- Model
- A23-24 · all A23-24s and related versions
- Serial number
- MA-209
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming I0360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1967
- Cruising speed
- 116 mph
- Transponder code
- A5E26E (octal 51361156)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 22, 2024
- Expires
- October 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- October 22, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · February 22, 1968
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00260095
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Chenault Mitchell Ray
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 2100 Lake Washington Blvd N
Apt P402
Renton, WA 98056-1453
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N4789J, 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 Chenault Mitchell Ray, an individual, certificate issued October 22, 2024, expires October 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated February 22, 1968, consistent with the 1967 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial MA-209 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N4789J 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]
1 NTSB record under N4789J: Accident on August 4, 1999 at Wheatland, WY: 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 A23-24 · operated under 091
The flight instructor's failure to maintain control of the aircraft. Factors were inadequate supervision of the student by the flight instructor and inaccurate judgment by the flight instructor in not having the aircraft examined following the event.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DEN00LA109 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data