Beech 95-B55 (T42A)
N555RD is a Beech 95-B55 (T42A), a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1977. It has 6 seats. It is registered to an individual in Santa Barbara, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 11, 1999 and expires on April 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 23, 1976.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Beech
- Model
- 95-B55 (T42A) · all 95-B55 (T42A)s and related versions
- Serial number
- TC-2025
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1977
- Cruising speed
- 165 mph
- Transponder code
- A71379 (octal 51611571)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 11, 1999
- Expires
- April 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 28, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · December 23, 1976
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00500037
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Gates Robert H
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 366 Woodley Rd
Santa Barbara, CA 93108-2004
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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 N555RD, 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 Gates Robert H, an individual, certificate issued January 11, 1999, expires April 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated December 23, 1976, consistent with the 1977 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial TC-2025 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N555RD 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 N555RD: Accident on January 16, 2004 at Tehachapi, CA: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal). 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 95-B55 · operated under 091
The pilot's inadequate visual lookout during climb, and the pilot of the other airplane's inadequate visual lookout during cruise.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX04FA095 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