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N9165S

Beech C23

Valid Arizona

N9165S is a Beech C23, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1976. It has 4 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Tucson, Arizona. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 24, 2014 and expires on September 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated January 7, 1976. 1 document is on file: loan release.

Aircraft

Maker
Beech
Model
C23 · all C23s and related versions
Serial number
M-1779
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
Seats
4
Year built
1976
Cruising speed
116 mph
Transponder code
ACB00D (octal 53130015)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
September 24, 2014
Expires
September 30, 2027
Last FAA action
March 17, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal; Utility · January 7, 1976
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
00200931

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Hufford Christopher
Type
Co-owned
Address
8701 N Burke Dr
Tucson, AZ 85742-9034
Co-owners
Hufford Cherie Ann

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 1

2026-09-21Loan release

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The public federal record on N9165S, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Hufford Christopher, a co-owned, certificate issued September 24, 2014, expires September 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated January 7, 1976, consistent with the 1976 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial M-1779 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N9165S according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

1 document received recently: Loan release (September 21, 2026). [3]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N9165S. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data