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N5653S

Beech A23-24

Valid Georgia

N5653S is a Beech A23-24, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1966. It has 4 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Savannah, Georgia. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 1, 1997 and expires on July 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated June 24, 1966.

Aircraft

Maker
Beech
Model
A23-24 · all A23-24s and related versions
Serial number
MA-79
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor IO-360 SER · 300 hp
Seats
4
Year built
1966
Cruising speed
116 mph
Transponder code
A73C4F (octal 51636117)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
April 1, 1997
Expires
July 31, 2027
Last FAA action
March 4, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal; Utility · June 24, 1966
FAA region
Southern
FAA record id
00340336

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Sellers Alton H
Type
Co-owned
Address
503 N Paxton Dr
Savannah, GA 31406-6466
Co-owners
Long William L

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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 N5653S, 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 Sellers Alton H, a co-owned, certificate issued April 1, 1997, expires July 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated June 24, 1966, consistent with the 1966 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial MA-79 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N5653S 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 N5653S. 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