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N973LB

Beech D55

Valid Delaware

N973LB is a Beech D55, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1968. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Lcnic LLC, an LLC in Wilmington, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 24, 2024 and expires on September 30, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated April 18, 1968.

Aircraft

Maker
Beech
Model
D55 · all D55s and related versions
Serial number
TE-557
Type
Fixed-wing, multi-engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors · Cont Motor IO 520 SERIES · 285 hp
Seats
6
Year built
1968
Cruising speed
165 mph
Transponder code
AD8FC6 (octal 53307706)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
September 24, 2024
Expires
September 30, 2031
Last FAA action
September 24, 2024
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · April 18, 1968
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
00744000

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Lcnic LLC
Type
LLC
Address
108 W 13Th St Ste 105
Wilmington, DE 19801-1145

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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 N973LB, 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 Lcnic LLC, an LLC, certificate issued September 24, 2024, expires September 30, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal, dated April 18, 1968, consistent with the 1968 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial TE-557 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N973LB according to the deregistered file. [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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N973LB. 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 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