Beech C-45H
N9157Z is a Beech C-45H, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turboprop engines. It has 10 seats. It is registered to Dakota Express LLC, an LLC in Wilmington, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 14, 2017 and expires on November 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated April 21, 1960.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Beech
- Model
- C-45H · all C-45Hs and related versions
- Serial number
- AF-884
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turboprop, 2 motors
- Seats
- 10
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 165 mph
- Transponder code
- ACACA3 (octal 53126243)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 14, 2017
- Expires
- November 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- April 1, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · April 21, 1960
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00521694
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Dakota Express LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 3511 Silverside Rd Ste 105
Wilmington, DE 19810-4902
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 2
Records check free · 1 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N9157Z, 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 Dakota Express LLC, an LLC, certificate issued November 14, 2017, expires November 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial AF-884 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N9157Z was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna 172R (serial 17281565, cancelled November 8, 2010); Cessna 337H (serial 33701827, cancelled October 27, 2005). 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 N9157Z. 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 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