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N8278T

Beech 58

Valid

N8278T is a Beech 58, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1992. It has 6 seats. It is registered to , an LLC. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 22, 2024 and expires on November 30, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 30, 1992.

Aircraft

Maker
Beech
Model
58 · all 58s and related versions
Serial number
TH-1672
Type
Fixed-wing, multi-engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors · Cont Motor IO-550 SERIES · 300 hp
Seats
6
Year built
1992
Cruising speed
165 mph
Transponder code
AB4E5E (octal 52647136)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
November 22, 2024
Expires
November 30, 2031
Last FAA action
November 22, 2024
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · September 30, 1992
FAA region
—
FAA record id
00494082

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Withheld at the owner's request
Type
LLC
Address

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 2

1961-09-21Cessna 175B · exported to Germany · Valid registration
—Piper PA-44-180T · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N8278T, 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 an owner whose details are withheld, an LLC, certificate issued November 22, 2024, expires November 30, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated September 30, 1992, consistent with the 1992 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial TH-1672 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N8278T was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna 175B (serial 17556978, cancelled September 21, 1961); Piper PA-44-180T (serial 448107024, cancelled date not given). 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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N8278T: Accident on February 14, 1983 at Indianapolis, IN: serious injuries, destroyed. Details below. [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.

NTSB records 1

CHI83FA114Accident on February 14, 1983 at Indianapolis, IN: serious injuries, destroyed.serial on NTSB record: 448107024

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-44-180T · operated under 091

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI83FA114 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

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