Beech 76
N877SP is a Beech 76, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Elizabeth City State University, a government body in Elizabeth City, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 13, 2021 and expires on January 31, 2028. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Beech
- Model
- 76 · all 76s and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. The Duchess twin. This is how the Beechcraft 76 Duchess family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- ME-310
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engineFAA type of aircraft code 5 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 2 motors
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- AC11F5 (octal 53010765)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- January 13, 2021
- Expires
- January 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 14, 2023
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00583674
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Elizabeth City State University (university or college with a flight programme: its whole fleet and safety record)
- Type
- GovernmentFAA type of owner code 5 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 1704 Weeksville Rd
Elizabeth City, NC 27909-7977
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.
Connections how N877SP links to the rest of the register
- Beechcraft 76 Duchess 151 registered
- Beech 17,447 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Elizabeth City State University 22 aircraft in the fleet
- Elizabeth City, NC 63 aircraft registered in this town
- Elizabeth City CG Air Station/Rgnl · ECG
- North Carolina 7,120 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Beechcraft 76 Duchess 2 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Beechcraft 76 Duchess 230 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Beechcraft 76 Duchess 34 supplemental type certificates
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N877SP.json.
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The public federal record on N877SP, 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 Elizabeth City State University, a government body, certificate issued January 13, 2021, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial ME-310 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N877SP 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 N877SP: Accident on June 30, 2001 at Hudson, CO: no 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 BE76 · operated under 091
main landing gear collapse on touchdown for reasons undetermined.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 29, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 29, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 29, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 29, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data