Beech E-55
N98DC is a Beech E-55, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1972. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Cayuga Copters INC, a corporation in Cynthiana, Kentucky. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 19, 2022 and expires on January 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated May 26, 1972.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Beech
- Model
- E-55 · all E-55s and related versions
- Serial number
- TE-865
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors · Cont Motor IO 520 SERIES · 285 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1972
- Cruising speed
- 165 mph
- Transponder code
- ADA919 (octal 53324431)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 19, 2022
- Expires
- January 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 28, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · May 26, 1972
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00720960
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Cayuga Copters INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 3325 Rutland Rd
Cynthiana, KY 41031-2005
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
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N98DC, 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 Cayuga Copters INC, a corporation, certificate issued January 19, 2022, expires January 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated May 26, 1972, consistent with the 1972 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial TE-865 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N98DC was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Bell 206B (serial 1508, cancelled October 8, 1996). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N98DC. 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 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