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A Beechcraft B200 King Air B200, the same model family as N949BW
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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 29, 2026
N949BW

Raytheon Aircraft Company B200

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesAlaska

N949BW is a Raytheon Aircraft Company B200, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turboprop engines. It has 11 seats. It is registered to Bering Air INC, a corporation in Nome, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 29, 2014 and expires on December 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated June 29, 2001.

Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Bering Air INC, so it can be flown for hire.

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Aircraft

Maker
Raytheon Aircraft Company
Model
B200 · all B200s and related versions
Built of
aluminium
The airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Beechcraft B200 King Air B200 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
BB-1763
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 · P&W Canada PT6A-6 SERIES · 950 hp
Seats
11
Year built
Not given
Transponder code
AD2EC5 (octal 53227305)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
December 29, 2014
Expires
December 31, 2027
Last FAA action
January 12, 2024
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 · June 29, 2001
FAA region
AlaskanFAA region code 5 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00883634

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Bering Air INC
Type
CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Address
PO Box 1650
Nome, AK 99762-1650
Charter N949BW with Bering Air INC:

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

1998-06-08Piper PA-23-250 · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office

Connections how N949BW links to the rest of the register

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Owner
Place
Live

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Records check free · 2 to understand · 2 clear

The public federal record on N949BW, 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 Bering Air INC, a corporation, certificate issued December 29, 2014, expires December 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

NOTEAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial BB-1763 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N949BW was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-23-250 (serial 277854051, cancelled June 8, 1998). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N949BW: Accident on June 9, 1995 at Sarasota, FL: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.

NTSB records 1

MIA95LA148Accident on June 9, 1995 at Sarasota, FL: no injuries, substantial damage.serial on NTSB record: 27-7854051

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-23-250 · operated under 091

The pilot's improper draining of the fuel sumps during preflight inspection of the airplane. This resulted in a partial loss of engine power on the left engine on initial take off climb due to water contamination, subsequent forced landing, collapse of the main landing gear, and on-ground collision with trees.

Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB

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 29, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 29, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 29, 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 29, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data