{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"2001-06-01","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2026-07-15","city":"KALISPELL","country_code":"US","county_code":"029","cruise_speed_mph":156,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"52032","engine_horsepower":750,"engine_maker":"P&W","engine_model":"PT6A SER","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2033-07-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"turboprops","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2026-07-15","maker":"Beech","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"BEECH","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"1152920","mode_s_code":"51527366","mode_s_hex":"A6AEF6","model":"200","n_number":"N53KA","name":"DESERT MOUNTAIN AIR LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":2,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N53KA is a Beech 200, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turboprop engines, built in 1981. It has 11 seats. It is registered to Desert Mountain Air LLC, an LLC in Kalispell, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 15, 2026 and expires on July 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated June 1, 2001.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Desert Mountain Air LLC, an LLC, certificate issued July 15, 2026, expires July 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 1, 2001, 20 years after the 1981 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains.","item":"Airworthiness certificate date","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial BB-880 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N53KA was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Dehavilland DHC-3 (serial 355, cancelled March 26, 1997). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"No NTSB investigation records located under N53KA. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Title chain, liens and 337 forms","source":null,"status":"PENDING"},{"finding":"AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.","item":"Airworthiness directives and utilization","source":null,"status":"PENDING"}],"records_check_sources":[{"n":1,"name":"FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":2,"name":"FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download)","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":3,"name":"FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":4,"name":"NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL)","url":"https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search"}],"region":"Northwest Mountain","region_code":"S","registrant_type":"LLC","registrant_type_code":"7","seats":11,"serial_number":"BB-880","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"MT","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"1001 S MAIN ST STE #49","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, multi-engine","type_aircraft_code":"5","type_engine":"Turboprop","type_engine_code":"2","unique_id":"00202580","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N53KA","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1981,"zip":"59901"}