Textron Aviation Inc B300C
N65RF is a Textron Aviation Inc B300C, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turboprop engines, built in 2022. It has 18 seats. It is registered to National Oceanic And Atmospheric Administration, a government body in Lakeland, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 8, 2024 and expires on January 31, 2031. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for aerial surveying, dated December 5, 2023.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Textron Aviation Inc
- Model
- B300C · all B300Cs and related versions
- Serial number
- FM-109
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turboprop, 2 motors · P&W Canada PT6A-60A · 1050 hp
- Seats
- 18
- Year built
- 2022
- Transponder code
- A88BDE (octal 52105736)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 8, 2024
- Expires
- January 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- January 8, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Aerial surveying · December 5, 2023
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 01376440
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- National Oceanic And Atmospheric Administration
- Type
- Government
- Address
- C/O Operations Center
3450 Flightline Dr
Lakeland, FL 33811-2836
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N65RF, 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 National Oceanic And Atmospheric Administration, a government body, certificate issued January 8, 2024, expires January 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Restricted certificate for aerial surveying, dated December 5, 2023, consistent with the 2022 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial FM-109 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N65RF 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]
1 NTSB record under N65RF: Accident on November 16, 2000 at Frostproof, FL: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Aerofab Inc. Lake Seawolf · operated under PUBU
The failure of the instructor pilot and dual student to begin the water takeoff with adequate clearance from the lake shore for the dual student to complete the takeoff and the failure of the instructor pilot to recognize in a timely manner during the takeoff that there was not adequate clearance from the lake shore to complete the takeoff and abort the takeoff, resulting in the airplane colliding with the terrain near the lake shore and coming to rest in a field about 900 feet inland from the lake shore.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for MIA01TA237 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through August 27, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data