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N5959F

Beech H-18

N5959F is a Beech H-18, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1965. It has 11 seats. It is registered to Mid Atlantic Air Museum, a corporation in Reading, Pennsylvania. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 16, 2016 and expires on March 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated February 17, 1965.

Aircraft

Maker
Beech
Model
H-18 · all H-18s and related versions
Serial number
BA-721
Type
Fixed-wing, multi-engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors · P&W R-985 SERIES · 450 hp
Seats
11
Year built
1965
Cruising speed
165 mph
Transponder code
A7B393 (octal 51731623)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
March 16, 2016
Expires
March 31, 2029
Last FAA action
July 22, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · February 17, 1965
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
00432005

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Mid Atlantic Air Museum
Type
Corporation
Address
11 Museum Dr
Reading, PA 19605-9407

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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 N5959F, 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 Mid Atlantic Air Museum, a corporation, certificate issued March 16, 2016, expires March 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated February 17, 1965, consistent with the 1965 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial BA-721 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N5959F 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 N5959F. 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