Beech C23
N66710 is a Beech C23, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1983. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Big Bend Community College, a government body in Moses Lake, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 3, 2019 and expires on April 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated April 29, 1983.
Where is it now Last seen October 29 at 5:01 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Beech
- Model
- C23 · all C23s 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 C23 Sundowner 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
- M-2387
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (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, 1 motor · Lycoming O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1983
- Cruising speed
- 116 mph
- Transponder code
- A8D0CE (octal 52150316)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- April 3, 2019
- Expires
- April 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 28, 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 · Normal; UtilityFAA certificate purpose code NU (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · April 29, 1983
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00513146
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Big Bend Community College (university or college with a flight programme: its whole fleet and safety record)
- Type
- GovernmentFAA type of owner code 5 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 7662 Chanute St NE Bldg 3000
Moses Lake, WA 98837-3293
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.
Earlier use of this number 1
Connections how N66710 links to the rest of the register
- Beechcraft C23 Sundowner 456 registered
- Beech 17,443 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming O-360 / VO-360 series 11,929 aircraft with this engine series · 180 hp
- Big Bend Community College 33 aircraft in the fleet
- Moses Lake, WA 170 aircraft registered in this town
- Grant County International · MWH
- Moses Lake Municipal · W20
- Washington 10,664 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Beechcraft C23 Sundowner 2 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Beechcraft C23 Sundowner 104 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Beechcraft C23 Sundowner 48 supplemental type certificates
- Report filed on this aircraft: Housing, failed · 1996-02-20
- Report filed on this aircraft: Housing Assy, cracked · 1996-02-13
- Where N66710 is now · Last seen October 29 at 5:01 pm.
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The public federal record on N66710, 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 Big Bend Community College, a government body, certificate issued April 3, 2019, expires April 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated April 29, 1983, consistent with the 1983 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial M-2387 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N66710 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 150M (serial 15076227, cancelled December 6, 1974). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N66710: Accident on November 25, 2018 at Porterville, CA: 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: Beech C23 · operated under 091
The pilot's improper landing flare, which resulted in an abnormal landing and subsequent porpoise.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 12, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data