Beech 95-B55 (T42A)
N85CM is a Beech 95-B55 (T42A), a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine. It has 6 seats. It is registered to an individual in Texarkana, Arkansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 13, 2024 and expires on February 28, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated April 25, 1968.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Beech
- Model
- 95-B55 (T42A) · all 95-B55 (T42A)s and related versions
- Serial number
- TC-1092
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors · Cont Motor I0-470 SERIES · 260 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 165 mph
- Transponder code
- ABA53D (octal 52722475)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 13, 2024
- Expires
- February 28, 2031
- Last FAA action
- February 13, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · April 25, 1968
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00183131
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Ruggles Don C
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 2 Colonial Dr
Texarkana, AR 71854-3004
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 · 3 clear
The public federal record on N85CM, 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 Ruggles Don C, an individual, certificate issued February 13, 2024, expires February 28, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial TC-1092 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N85CM was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-31T (serial 31T-8020019, cancelled March 1, 1999). 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 N85CM. 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