Beech C23
N6977R is a Beech C23, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1974. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Sundowner Aviation INC, a corporation in Blaine, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 20, 2013 and expires on May 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated December 16, 1974.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Beech
- Model
- C23 · all C23s and related versions
- Serial number
- M-1620
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1974
- Cruising speed
- 116 mph
- Transponder code
- A94814 (octal 52244024)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 20, 2013
- Expires
- May 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 4, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · December 16, 1974
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00010447
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sundowner Aviation INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 10105 Pleasure Creek Cir NE
Blaine, MN 55434-4234
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
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N6977R, 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 Sundowner Aviation INC, a corporation, certificate issued May 20, 2013, expires May 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated December 16, 1974, consistent with the 1974 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial M-1620 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N6977R was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Sikorsky S-65C (serial 65240, cancelled February 4, 1970). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N6977R. 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 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
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