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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 29, 2026Beech F90
N97HM is a Beech F90, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turboprop engines. It has 10 seats. It is registered to Ed Santos & Associates LLC Trustee, an LLC in Wilmington, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 19, 2021 and expires on November 30, 2028. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
Where is it now Last seen yesterday at 3:07 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Beech
- Model
- F90 · all F90s and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Beechcraft F90 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
- LA44
- 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
- Seats
- 10
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- AD8207 (octal 53301007)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- November 19, 2021
- Expires
- November 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- January 6, 2026
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00936831
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Ed Santos & Associates LLC Trustee
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 108 W 13Th St
Wilmington, DE 19801-1145
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.
Connections how N97HM links to the rest of the register
- Beechcraft F90 108 registered
- Beech 17,447 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Ed Santos & Associates LLC Trustee 2 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Wilmington, DE 7,375 aircraft registered in this town
- New Castle Airport · ILG
- Delaware 10,964 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Beechcraft F90 2 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Beechcraft F90 71 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Beechcraft F90 60 supplemental type certificates
- Where N97HM is now · Last seen yesterday at 3:07 pm.
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N97HM.json.
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The public federal record on N97HM, 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 Ed Santos & Associates LLC Trustee, an LLC, certificate issued November 19, 2021, expires November 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial LA44 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N97HM 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]
1 NTSB record under N97HM: Accident on May 5, 1999 at Wrangell, AK: fatal. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Bell UH-1B · operated under 133
The pilot-in-command's failure to maintain sufficient distance from a transmission wire, arcing of the transmission wire, the failure of company personnel to utilize a nonconducting cable, and an inadequate procedure utilized by the construction project manager to ensure adequate fault protection on an energized transmission wire. Factors in the accident were a failure of the helicopter operator to maintain sufficient standards, including flight and ground crew coordination, and a failure to maintain radio communication between the pilot and ground crew.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 29, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 29, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 29, 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 29, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data