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N55KJ

Beech 58TC

Valid Florida

N55KJ is a Beech 58TC, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1977. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Hope For Bethesda, a corporation in Orange Park, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 22, 2021 and expires on February 29, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated November 29, 1976.

Aircraft

Maker
Beech
Model
58TC · all 58TCs and related versions
Serial number
TK-40
Type
Fixed-wing, multi-engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors
Seats
6
Year built
1977
Cruising speed
123 mph
Transponder code
A6FDFC (octal 51576774)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
February 22, 2021
Expires
February 29, 2028
Last FAA action
April 21, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · November 29, 1976
FAA region
Southern
FAA record id
00503355

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Hope For Bethesda
Type
Corporation
Address
1134 Blanding Blvd
Orange Park, FL 32065-6704

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N55KJ, 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 Hope For Bethesda, a corporation, certificate issued February 22, 2021, expires February 29, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated November 29, 1976, consistent with the 1977 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial TK-40 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N55KJ 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 N55KJ. 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 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through August 27, 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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data