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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 28, 2026Beech B100
N88FA is a Beech B100, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turboprop engines, built in 1979. It has 11 seats. It is registered to an individual in Helena, Montana. The FAA lists the registration as "registration pending". It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 6, 1979. 2 documents are on file: 2 × bill of sale (evidence of ownership).
Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Aviation Charter Services LLC, so it can be flown for hire; the registered owner is someone else, which is usual for a managed aircraft.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Beech
- Model
- B100 · all B100s 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 Beechcraft B100 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
- BE-74
- 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
- TurbopropFAA type of engine code 2 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 2 motors · Airesearch TPE331-5&6SER · 776 hp
- Seats
- 11
- Year built
- 1979
- Cruising speed
- 210 mph
- Transponder code
- AC1BFA (octal 53015772)
Registration
- Status
- Registration pendingFAA registration status code R (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- —
- Expires
- —
- Last FAA action
- September 9, 2026
- 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 · August 6, 1979
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00200425
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Registration Pending
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 55 W 14Th St Ste 101
Helena, MT 59601-3387
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 2
Connections how N88FA links to the rest of the register
- Beechcraft B100 58 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
- Aviation Charter Services LLC · charter operator
- AiResearch (Honeywell) TPE331-5&6 series 133 aircraft with this engine series · 776 hp
- Helena, MT 536 aircraft registered in this town
- Helena Regional · HLN
- Montana 6,044 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Beechcraft B100 39 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Beechcraft B100 200 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Beechcraft B100 210 supplemental type certificates
- Report filed on this aircraft: Drive Shaft, stripped · 2005-02-14
- Report filed on this aircraft: Starter Gen, failed · 2005-01-04
- Report filed on this aircraft: Motor, damaged · 2004-12-21
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N88FA.json.
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The public federal record on N88FA, 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.
Registration status is "Registration pending". An aircraft cannot be operated on an invalid or expired registration; resolve this with the FAA before any transaction. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated August 6, 1979, consistent with the 1979 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial BE-74 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N88FA according to the deregistered file. [2]
2 documents received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (October 9, 2026), Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (October 16, 2026). [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N88FA. 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 October 28, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 28, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 28, 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 28, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data