Beech A65
N888EK is a Beech A65, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1967. It has 9 seats. It is registered to Excalibur Knight One LLC, an LLC in Miami, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 19, 2015 and expires on March 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated March 2, 1970.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Beech
- Model
- A65 · all A65s and related versions
- Serial number
- LC-263
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors · Lycoming IO-720 · 400 hp
- Seats
- 9
- Year built
- 1967
- Cruising speed
- 174 mph
- Transponder code
- AC3BFB (octal 53035773)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 19, 2015
- Expires
- March 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 28, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · March 2, 1970
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00401256
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Excalibur Knight One LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 1000 Macarthur Cswy
Miami, FL 33132-1613
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 · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N888EK, 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 Excalibur Knight One LLC, an LLC, certificate issued March 19, 2015, expires March 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated March 2, 1970, 3 years after the 1967 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial LC-263 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N888EK was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Klapmeiesa A L/Klapmeiesa D E CIRRUS VK-30 (serial CD008, cancelled March 23, 1995). 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]
1 NTSB record under N888EK: Accident on June 14, 1990 at Baraboo, WI: no injuries, destroyed. 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: Cirrus Klappmeier CIRRUS VF-30 · operated under 091
MANUFACTURER'S INADEQUATE EQUIPMENT DESIGN TO PREVENT A FUEL LEAK WHICH RESULTED IN AN IN-FLIGHT FIRE. A FACTOR RELATED TO THE ACCIDENT WAS THE LACK OF AN UNSUITABLE FORCED LANDING AREA.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI90DEP05 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
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