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N64463

Beech C18S

Valid Illinois

N64463 is a Beech C18S, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1943. It has 10 seats. It is registered to Air Combat Museum, a corporation in Springfield, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 1, 1995 and expires on September 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated October 23, 1957.

Aircraft

Maker
Beech
Model
C18S · all C18Ss and related versions
Serial number
4534
Type
Fixed-wing, multi-engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors · P&W R-985 SERIES · 450 hp
Seats
10
Year built
1943
Cruising speed
165 mph
Transponder code
A8775D (octal 52073535)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
May 1, 1995
Expires
September 30, 2027
Last FAA action
March 17, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · October 23, 1957
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
00162326

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Air Combat Museum
Type
Corporation
Address
6 Fox Mill Ln
Springfield, IL 62712-9511

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 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N64463, 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 Air Combat Museum, a corporation, certificate issued May 1, 1995, expires September 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated October 23, 1957, 14 years after the 1943 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 4534 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N64463 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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

2 NTSB records under N64463: Accident on December 19, 1985 at Deland, FL: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on April 9, 1982 at Hereford, TX: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.

NTSB records 2

MIA86LA046Accident on December 19, 1985 at Deland, FL: no injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Beech C-18S · operated under 091

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for MIA86LA046 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

FTW82DA117Accident on April 9, 1982 at Hereford, TX: no injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Beech C-18S · operated under 091

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW82DA117 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

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