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N618CH

Beech E-55

Valid Georgia

N618CH is a Beech E-55, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1970. It has 6 seats. It is registered to an individual in Claxton, Georgia. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 5, 2020 and expires on March 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated January 28, 1970.

Aircraft

Maker
Beech
Model
E-55 · all E-55s and related versions
Serial number
TE-787
Type
Fixed-wing, multi-engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors · Cont Motor IO 520 SERIES · 285 hp
Seats
6
Year built
1970
Cruising speed
165 mph
Transponder code
A80CB0 (octal 52006260)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
March 5, 2020
Expires
March 31, 2030
Last FAA action
October 13, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · January 28, 1970
FAA region
Southern
FAA record id
00981416

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Hearn Caughey
Type
Individual
Address
PO Box 248
Claxton, GA 30417-0248

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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 N618CH, 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 Hearn Caughey, an individual, certificate issued March 5, 2020, expires March 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated January 28, 1970, consistent with the 1970 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial TE-787 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N618CH 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 N618CH. 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