Beech 95-B55 (T42A)
N5868S is a Beech 95-B55 (T42A), a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine. It has 6 seats. It is registered to an individual in Blackburn, Missouri. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 3, 2018 and expires on July 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated February 12, 1965.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Beech
- Model
- 95-B55 (T42A) · all 95-B55 (T42A)s and related versions
- Serial number
- TC-860
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors · Cont Motor I0-470 SERIES · 260 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 165 mph
- Transponder code
- A78FB3 (octal 51707663)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 3, 2018
- Expires
- July 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 26, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · February 12, 1965
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00801785
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Holloway John
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 18210 Arcadia Ave
Blackburn, MO 65321-2323
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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 N5868S, 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 Holloway John, an individual, certificate issued July 3, 2018, expires July 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial TC-860 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N5868S 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 N5868S: Accident on October 1, 2024 at Crystal River, FL: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Beech 95 · operated under 091
On October 1, 2024, about 1540 eastern daylight time, a Beech 95-B55, N5868S, was destroyed when it collided with terrain near Crystal River, Florida. The private pilot was fatally injured. The personal flight was conducted under the provisions of Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91. Witnesses at a maintenance facility at Crystal River Airport (CGC), Crystal River, Florida, heard the accident pilot transmit a distress call over the airport’s common traffic advisory frequency. The pilot identified the airplane as “68S” and requested the location of the airport, citing visual reference …
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- 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