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A Beechcraft 60 Duke, the same model family as N54DB
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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 27, 2026
N54DB

Beech 60

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesKentucky

N54DB is a Beech 60, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1970. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Mattingly Aviation LLC, an LLC in Radcliff, Kentucky. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 2, 2025 and expires on April 30, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated March 19, 1970.

Where is it now Last seen October 18 at 12:32 pm.

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Aircraft

Maker
Beech
Model
60 · all 60s and related versions
Built of
aluminium
The airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Beechcraft 60 Duke 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
P-127
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
Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 2 motors · Lycoming TI0-541 SER · 310 hp
Seats
6
Year built
1970
Cruising speed
150 mph
Transponder code
A6D5E0 (octal 51552740)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
April 2, 2025
Expires
April 30, 2032
Last FAA action
April 2, 2025
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 · March 19, 1970
FAA region
CentralFAA region code 3 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00562985

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Mattingly Aviation 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
1386 S Dixie Blvd
Radcliff, KY 40160-1124

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.

Connections how N54DB links to the rest of the register

Design
Engine
Owner
Place
  • Radcliff, KY 6 aircraft registered in this town
  • Kentucky 2,984 aircraft registered
Airworthiness
Live

The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N54DB.json.

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N54DB, 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 Mattingly Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued April 2, 2025, expires April 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated March 19, 1970, consistent with the 1970 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial P-127 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N54DB 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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N54DB. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.

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 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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