Beech 200
N98KC is a Beech 200, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turboprop engines, built in 1976. It has 11 seats. It is registered to Belles Aviation LLC, an LLC in Missoula, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 28, 2017 and expires on July 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 10, 1976.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Beech
- Model
- 200 · all 200s and related versions
- Serial number
- BB172
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turboprop, 2 motors · P&W Canada PT6A-60A · 1050 hp
- Seats
- 11
- Year built
- 1976
- Cruising speed
- 156 mph
- Transponder code
- ADA9AF (octal 53324657)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 28, 2017
- Expires
- July 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 4, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · August 10, 1976
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00900080
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Belles Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- PO Box 7967
Missoula, MT 59807-7967
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 · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N98KC, 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 Belles Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued July 28, 2017, expires July 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated August 10, 1976, consistent with the 1976 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial BB172 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N98KC was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 210E (serial 21058703, cancelled January 8, 2009). 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]
1 NTSB record under N98KC: Accident on August 12, 2008 at Auburn, WA: minor injuries, substantial damage. 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: Cessna 210E · operated under 091
A catastrophic engine failure due to the partial blockage of the lubricating oil galley in one of the crankshaft connecting rod journals, leading to the failure of the connecting rod cap.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for SEA08CA176 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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