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N73548

Beech D18S

Valid Texas

N73548 is a Beech D18S, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine. It has 10 seats. It is registered to Smith Salvage And Restoration Services LLC, an LLC in New Berlin, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 10, 2024 and expires on June 30, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated January 18, 1972.

Aircraft

Maker
Beech
Model
D18S · all D18Ss and related versions
Serial number
A-548
Type
Fixed-wing, multi-engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors · P&W R-985 SERIES · 450 hp
Seats
10
Year built
Not given
Cruising speed
165 mph
Transponder code
A9E0A3 (octal 52360243)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
June 10, 2024
Expires
June 30, 2031
Last FAA action
June 10, 2024
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · January 18, 1972
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
00902017

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Smith Salvage And Restoration Services LLC
Type
LLC
Address
521 Texas Heritage Dr
New Berlin, TX 78121

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

1955-10-12Cessna T-50 · Valid registration

Records check free · 1 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N73548, 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 Smith Salvage And Restoration Services LLC, an LLC, certificate issued June 10, 2024, expires June 30, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

NOTEAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal; 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 A-548 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N73548 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna T-50 (serial 4423, cancelled October 12, 1955). 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 N73548. 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