Beech E18S
N5609D is a Beech E18S, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1957. It has 10 seats. It is registered to an individual in San Marcos, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 27, 2023 and expires on May 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated September 5, 1957.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Beech
- Model
- E18S · all E18Ss and related versions
- Serial number
- BA-315
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors · P&W R-985 SERIES · 450 hp
- Seats
- 10
- Year built
- 1957
- Cruising speed
- 165 mph
- Transponder code
- A72A81 (octal 51625201)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 27, 2023
- Expires
- May 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- May 27, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · September 5, 1957
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00300186
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Reed Steven W
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 2911 Summit Ridge Dr
San Marcos, TX 78666-4951
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.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N5609D, 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 Reed Steven W, an individual, certificate issued May 27, 2023, expires May 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate, dated September 5, 1957, consistent with the 1957 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial BA-315 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N5609D 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 N5609D. 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 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
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