{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1981-06-25","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"1985-10-31","city":"SAINT PAUL","country_code":"US","county_code":"123","cruise_speed_mph":201,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"61508","engine_horsepower":715,"engine_maker":"U/A CANADA","engine_model":"PT6A SERIES","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2028-08-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"turboprops","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-06-03","maker":"Beech","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"BEECH","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"1152913","mode_s_code":"51577062","mode_s_hex":"A6FE32","model":"C90","n_number":"N55MN","name":"MINNESOTA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[],"num_engines":2,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N55MN is a Beech C90, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turboprop engines, built in 1981. It has 9 seats. It is registered to Minnesota Department Of Transportation, a government body in Saint Paul, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 31, 1985 and expires on August 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated June 25, 1981.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Minnesota Department Of Transportation, a government body, certificate issued October 31, 1985, expires August 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for normal, dated June 25, 1981, consistent with the 1981 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial LJ-974 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N55MN according to the deregistered file.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"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 N55MN. 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":"Great Lakes","region_code":"C","registrant_type":"Government","registrant_type_code":"5","seats":9,"serial_number":"LJ-974","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"MN","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"395 JOHN IRELAND BLVD MSC 410","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, multi-engine","type_aircraft_code":"5","type_engine":"Turboprop","type_engine_code":"2","unique_id":"00293555","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N55MN","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1981,"zip":"551551800"}