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N6718Y

Beech C23

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesIllinois

N6718Y is a Beech C23, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1980. It has 4 seats. It is registered to N6718Y Lk Aircraft Holdings LLC, an LLC in Wheeling, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 9, 2009 and expires on October 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated June 19, 1980.

Aircraft

Maker
Beech
Model
C23 · all C23s and related versions
Serial number
M-2270
Type
Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). All codes
Power
Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
Seats
4
Year built
1980
Cruising speed
116 mph
Transponder code
A8E2F6 (octal 52161366)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). All codes
Certificate issued
June 9, 2009
Expires
October 31, 2027
Last FAA action
March 24, 2023
Airworthiness
StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · Normal; UtilityFAA certificate purpose code NU (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · June 19, 1980
FAA region
Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00453266

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
N6718Y Lk Aircraft Holdings LLC
Type
LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). All codes
Address
1098 S Milwaukee Ave Ste 102
Wheeling, IL 60090-6377

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

1973-03-23Piper PA-23-250 · exported to United Kingdom · Valid registration

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N6718Y, 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 N6718Y Lk Aircraft Holdings LLC, an LLC, certificate issued June 9, 2009, expires October 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated June 19, 1980, consistent with the 1980 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial M-2270 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N6718Y was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-23-250 (serial 274048, cancelled March 23, 1973). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N6718Y. 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 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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data