Beech 58
N96BD is a Beech 58, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1974. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Roberts Aircraft INC, a corporation in West Chicago, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 10, 2003 and expires on May 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated March 26, 1974.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Beech
- Model
- 58 · all 58s and related versions
- Serial number
- TH457
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors · Cont Motor IO 520 SERIES · 285 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1974
- Cruising speed
- 165 mph
- Transponder code
- AD59EA (octal 53254752)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 10, 2003
- Expires
- May 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 4, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · March 26, 1974
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00484390
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Roberts Aircraft INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 31W775 North Ave
West Chicago, IL 60185-6402
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.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N96BD, 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 Roberts Aircraft INC, a corporation, certificate issued January 10, 2003, expires May 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated March 26, 1974, consistent with the 1974 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial TH457 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N96BD 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 N96BD. 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 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