Beech B23
N8311F is a Beech B23, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1969. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Orlando, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 5, 2022 and expires on February 28, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated February 12, 2002.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Beech
- Model
- B23 · all B23s and related versions
- Serial number
- M1280
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O-360 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1969
- Cruising speed
- 116 mph
- Transponder code
- AB5E92 (octal 52657222)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 5, 2022
- Expires
- February 28, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · February 12, 2002
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00894037
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Gregoire Brandon James Ernst
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 10020 Rustic Ridge Ct
Orlando, FL 32832-5605
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.
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The public federal record on N8311F, 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 Gregoire Brandon James Ernst, an individual, certificate issued February 5, 2022, expires February 28, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated February 12, 2002, 33 years after the 1969 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial M1280 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N8311F according to the deregistered file. [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 N8311F: Accident on April 10, 1992 at Pacific Ocean, PO: minor 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: Hughes 369C · operated under 091
AN UNDETERMINED FAILURE IN THE ROTOR SYSTEM.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX92LA175 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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