Nicholas Beazley ONE
N88DF is a Nicholas Beazley ONE, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1930. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Waikoloa, Hawaii. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 26, 1968 and expires on May 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for racing, dated August 26, 1949.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Nicholas Beazley
- Model
- ONE
- Serial number
- 1
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor A&C75 SERIES · 75 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1930
- Cruising speed
- 112 mph
- Transponder code
- AC1BCD (octal 53015715)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 26, 1968
- Expires
- May 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- December 18, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Racing · August 26, 1949
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00330030
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Freeman David R
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 68-1901 Pakanu St
Waikoloa, HI 96738-5379
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 N88DF, 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 Freeman David R, an individual, certificate issued April 26, 1968, expires May 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 26, 1949, 19 years after the 1930 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 1 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N88DF was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 421A (serial 421A0084, cancelled January 17, 2018). 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 N88DF: Accident on July 11, 2010 at Tulsa, OK: fatal, substantial damage (3 fatal). 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: Cessna 421 · operated under 091
The pilot’s inadequate preflight fuel planning and management in-flight, which resulted in total loss of engine power due to fuel exhaustion. Contributing to the accident was the pilot’s use of performance-impairing medications.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN10FA382 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