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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 3, 2026Beech 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.
Where is it now Last seen Sunday at 4:30 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Beech
- Model
- 200 · all 200s 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 200 King Air 200 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
- BB172
- 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 · P&W Canada PT6A-60A · 1050 hp
- Fuel
- Jet A
- Seats
- 11
- Year built
- 1976
- Cruising speed
- 156 mph
- Transponder code
- ADA9AF (octal 53324657)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- July 28, 2017
- Expires
- July 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 4, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · August 10, 1976
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00900080
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Belles Aviation 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
- 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
Connections how N98KC links to the rest of the register
- Beechcraft 200 King Air 200 249 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
- Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-60A 1,178 aircraft with this engine series · 1050 hp
- Belles Aviation LLC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Missoula, MT 759 aircraft registered in this town
- Missoula Montana Airport · MSO
- Montana 6,047 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Beechcraft 200 King Air 200 5 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Beechcraft 200 King Air 200 1,326 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Beechcraft 200 King Air 200 125 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-60A 2 airworthiness directives
- Report filed on this aircraft: Skin, cracked · 2015-01-13
- Report filed on this aircraft: Stiffener, cracked · 2014-06-02
- Where N98KC is now · Last seen Sunday at 4:30 pm.
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N98KC.json.
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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.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- 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 3, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data