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N87711

Beech H-18

N87711 is a Beech H-18, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine. It has 11 seats. It is registered to Planeview Aviation Services INC, a corporation in Ahoskie, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 8, 2021 and expires on October 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 19, 1963.

Aircraft

Maker
Beech
Model
H-18 · all H-18s and related versions
Serial number
BA-650
Type
Fixed-wing, multi-engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors · P&W R-985 SERIES · 450 hp
Seats
11
Year built
Not given
Cruising speed
165 mph
Transponder code
AC12EC (octal 53011354)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
October 8, 2021
Expires
October 31, 2028
Last FAA action
June 16, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · August 19, 1963
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
00992541

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Planeview Aviation Services INC
Type
Corporation
Address
PO Box 925
Ahoskie, NC 27910-0925

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

1981-10-13Brown FJ-2 · Valid registration

Records check free · 2 to understand · 2 clear

The public federal record on N87711, 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 Planeview Aviation Services INC, a corporation, certificate issued October 8, 2021, expires October 31, 2028. 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 BA-650 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N87711 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Brown FJ-2 (serial 102, cancelled October 13, 1981). 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 N87711: Accident on July 24, 2009 at Dayton, OH: no injuries, substantial damage. 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

CEN09CA474Accident on July 24, 2009 at Dayton, OH: no injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Beech H-18 · operated under 091

The pilot's failure to lock the tailwheel during landing resulting in the loss of directional control.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN09CA474 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