Beech 23
N8704M is a Beech 23, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1963. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Dodson International Parts INC, a corporation in Rantoul, Kansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on and expires on . It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated July 3, 1963.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Beech
- Model
- 23 · all 23s and related versions
- Serial number
- M-488
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1963
- Cruising speed
- 113 mph
- Transponder code
- ABF946 (octal 52774506)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- —
- Expires
- —
- Last FAA action
- November 8, 2016
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · July 3, 1963
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00142271
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Dodson International Parts INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 2155 Vermont Rd
Rantoul, KS 66079-9014
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 N8704M, 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 Dodson International Parts INC, a corporation, certificate issued , expires date not given. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated July 3, 1963, consistent with the 1963 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial M-488 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N8704M 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 N8704M: Accident on July 2, 2016 at Maryville, MO: 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: Beech 23 · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to see and avoid power lines on approach during landing, resulting a power line strike, uncontrolled descent, and collision with terrain. Contributing to the accident was the pilot's inadequate pre-flight planning.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for GAA16CA357 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data