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N65CS

Beech 65

Valid Kansas

N65CS is a Beech 65, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine. It has 9 seats. It is registered to an individual in Hesston, Kansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 12, 2021 and expires on March 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated May 29, 1961.

Aircraft

Maker
Beech
Model
65 · all 65s and related versions
Serial number
LC-82
Type
Fixed-wing, multi-engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors · Lycoming GSO&IGSO-480 · 340 hp
Seats
9
Year built
Not given
Cruising speed
174 mph
Transponder code
A88AA4 (octal 52105244)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
March 12, 2021
Expires
March 31, 2028
Last FAA action
April 28, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · May 29, 1961
FAA region
Central
FAA record id
00872516

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Challans Robert F
Type
Individual
Address
13 Parkview Rd
Hesston, KS 67062-9045

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 · 0 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N65CS, 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 Challans Robert F, an individual, certificate issued March 12, 2021, expires March 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

NOTEAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial LC-82 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N65CS 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 N65CS. 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