Smith AEROSTAR 600
N8818X is a Smith AEROSTAR 600, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1973. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Beech Bash In the Bluegrass LLC, an LLC in Fort Myers, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 20, 2025 and expires on May 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 12, 1973.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Smith
- Model
- AEROSTAR 600 · all AEROSTAR 600s 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. This is how the Smith AEROSTAR 600 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
- 60-0143-063
- 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 · Lycoming TI0-540 SER · 310 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1973
- Cruising speed
- 186 mph
- Transponder code
- AC2512 (octal 53022422)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- May 20, 2025
- Expires
- May 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- May 20, 2025
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · September 12, 1973
- FAA region
- SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00043046
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Beech Bash In the Bluegrass LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 2739 Oak Ridge Ct Ste 203
Fort Myers, FL 33901-9370
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Connections how N8818X links to the rest of the register
- Smith AEROSTAR 600 42 registered
- Smith 184 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming TIO-540 series 5,074 aircraft with this engine series · 310 hp
- Beech Bash In the Bluegrass LLC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Fort Myers, FL 434 aircraft registered in this town
- Page Field · FMY
- Southwest Florida International · RSW
- Florida 21,704 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming TIO-540 series 41 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming TIO-540 series 363 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N8818X, 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 Beech Bash In the Bluegrass LLC, an LLC, certificate issued May 20, 2025, expires May 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated September 12, 1973, consistent with the 1973 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 60-0143-063 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N8818X was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 182D (serial 18253218, cancelled March 11, 2013). 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 N8818X. 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 November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 12, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data