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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 27, 2026Beech D18S
N649B is a Beech D18S, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1948. It has 10 seats. It is registered to Spirit Engineering INC, a corporation in Grand Junction, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 1, 2016 and expires on March 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Beech
- Model
- D18S · all D18Ss and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Beechcraft D18 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
- A-454
- 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 · P&W R-985 SERIES · 450 hp
- Seats
- 10
- Year built
- 1948
- Cruising speed
- 165 mph
- Transponder code
- A886C3 (octal 52103303)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- March 1, 2016
- Expires
- March 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 22, 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
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00233078
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Spirit Engineering INC
- 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
- 841 21 1/2 Rd
Grand Junction, CO 81505-9711
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.
Connections how N649B links to the rest of the register
- Beechcraft D18 55 registered
- Beech 17,447 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Pratt & Whitney R-985 series 1,593 aircraft with this engine series · 450 hp
- Spirit Engineering INC 43 aircraft in the fleet
- Holds an FAA aircraft dealer certificate · valid to October 6, 2027
- Grand Junction, CO 162 aircraft registered in this town
- Grand Junction Regional · GJT
- Colorado 7,455 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Beechcraft D18 3 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Beechcraft D18 29 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Beechcraft D18 65 supplemental type certificates
- Failure reports on the Pratt & Whitney R-985 series 80 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N649B, 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 Spirit Engineering INC, a corporation, certificate issued March 1, 2016, expires March 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate; the FAA file gives no certificate date. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial A-454 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N649B 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N649B. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]
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.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 27, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data