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A Beechcraft B200 King Air B200, the same model family as N981BB
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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 4, 2026
N981BB

Raytheon Aircraft Company B200

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesTexas

N981BB 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 Guardian Flight LLC, an LLC in Lewisville, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 2, 2017 and expires on October 31, 2027. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.

Listed on the FAA charter and air-taxi certificate of Guardian Flight, LLC., so it can be flown for hire.

Where is it now Last seen yesterday at 12:21 am.

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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-1960
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
11
Year built
Not given
Transponder code
ADAEF6 (octal 53327366)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
October 2, 2017
Expires
October 31, 2027
Last FAA action
February 6, 2025
Airworthiness
None on file
FAA region
SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00283799

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Guardian Flight LLC
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
4400 State Highway 121 Ste 700
Lewisville, TX 75056-4952
Charter N981BB with Guardian Flight, LLC.:

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Connections how N981BB links to the rest of the register

Design
Flies for
Owner
Place
  • Lewisville, TX 124 aircraft registered in this town
  • Texas 29,960 aircraft registered
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Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N981BB, 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 Guardian Flight LLC, an LLC, certificate issued October 2, 2017, expires October 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate

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]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial BB-1960 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N981BB 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 N981BB. 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 November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 4, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data