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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 12, 2026Socata TB 30 EPSILON
N912BE is a Socata TB 30 EPSILON, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1984. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Estes Aviation LLC, an LLC in Rapid City, South Dakota. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 20, 2021 and expires on July 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for unmanned aircraft, exhibition, dated June 13, 2019.
Where is it now Last seen Monday at 11:13 am.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Socata
- Model
- TB 30 EPSILON · all TB 30 EPSILONs 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 Daher (Socata) TB 30 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
- 06
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (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, 1 motor · Lycoming AEIO540-L1B5D · 300 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1984
- Transponder code
- AC9E37 (octal 53117067)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- July 20, 2021
- Expires
- July 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 2, 2023
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Unmanned aircraft, exhibitionFAA certificate purpose code 9D (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · June 13, 2019
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01254400
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Estes Aviation 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
- PO Box 9003
Rapid City, SD 57709-9003
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N912BE links to the rest of the register
- Daher (Socata) TB 30 43 registered
- Socata 1,057 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming AEIO-540-L1B5D 41 aircraft with this engine series · 300 hp
- Estes Aviation LLC 8 aircraft in the fleet
- Holds an FAA aircraft dealer certificate · expired
- Rapid City, SD 152 aircraft registered in this town
- Rapid City Regional · RAP
- South Dakota 2,278 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming AEIO-540-L1B5D 23 airworthiness directives
- Where N912BE is now · Last seen Monday at 11:13 am.
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The public federal record on N912BE, 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 Estes Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued July 20, 2021, expires July 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 13, 2019, 35 years after the 1984 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 06 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N912BE 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N912BE. 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