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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 3, 2026
N6001Y

Beech 76

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesTexas

N6001Y is a Beech 76, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1978. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Pilots Choice Aviation Equipment Leasing CO, a corporation in Georgetown, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 21, 2017 and expires on August 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 6, 1978. 2 documents are on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership), loan or lien (security agreement).

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Aircraft

Maker
Beech
Model
76 · all 76s and related versions
Built of
aluminium
The airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. The Duchess twin. This is how the Beechcraft 76 Duchess family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
Serial number
ME-119
Type
Fixed-wing, multi-engineFAA type of aircraft code 5 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Power
Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 2 motors · Lycoming O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
Fuel
100LL avgas
Seats
4
Year built
1978
Transponder code
A7C9D1 (octal 51744721)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
August 21, 2017
Expires
August 31, 2027
Last FAA action
March 10, 2023
Airworthiness
StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · December 6, 1978
FAA region
SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00430806

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Pilots Choice Aviation Equipment Leasing CO
Type
CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Address
209 Corsair Dr
Georgetown, TX 78628-2308

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 2

2026-10-27Bill of sale (evidence of ownership)
2026-10-28Loan or lien (security agreement)

Connections how N6001Y links to the rest of the register

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The public federal record on N6001Y, 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 Pilots Choice Aviation Equipment Leasing CO, a corporation, certificate issued August 21, 2017, expires August 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated December 6, 1978, consistent with the 1978 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial ME-119 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N6001Y according to the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONRecent registry documents

1 loan or lien document received by the registry recently (October 28, 2026). The full title and lien picture is in the FAA aircraft records file. [3]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N6001Y. 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 November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 3, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data