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Beech A45
N488JF is a Beech A45, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1953. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Mentoraire LLC, an LLC in Lake Forest, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 15, 2018 and expires on December 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for acrobatic, dated April 30, 1965.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Beech
- Model
- A45 · all A45s 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. The T-34 Mentor, the Navy's and Air Force's trainer. This is how the Beechcraft A45 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
- G-298
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Cont Motor IO-520-BA · 285 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1953
- Cruising speed
- 141 mph
- Transponder code
- A6071F (octal 51403437)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- December 15, 2018
- Expires
- December 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- July 1, 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 · AcrobaticFAA certificate purpose code A (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · April 30, 1965
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00330337
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Mentoraire LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 21852 Ticonderoga Ln
Lake Forest, CA 92630-2312
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N488JF links to the rest of the register
- Beechcraft A45 167 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
- Continental IO-520-BA 25 aircraft with this engine series · 285 hp
- Mentoraire LLC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Lake Forest, CA 31 aircraft registered in this town
- California 27,655 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Beechcraft A45 7 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Beechcraft A45 12 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Beechcraft A45 57 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Continental IO-520-BA 33 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Continental IO-520-BA 111 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N488JF, 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 Mentoraire LLC, an LLC, certificate issued December 15, 2018, expires December 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 30, 1965, 12 years after the 1953 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]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial G-298 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N488JF 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N488JF. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 28, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 28, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 28, 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 28, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data