313 Beechjet 400/400A light jets are currently on the FAA registry. The design began as the Mitsubishi MU-300 Diamond, was bought and developed into the Beechjet 400 by Beech Aircraft in the 1980s, and continued production under the same airframe name through Raytheon Aircraft Company and later Hawker Beechcraft Corp -- three manufacturer names on the registry for one continuous aircraft family.
A name worth being careful with
Hawker Beechcraft later marketed this same airframe as the "Hawker 400XP." That name overlaps with two entirely different jets also built by the same company: the Hawker 4000, an unrelated all-new composite aircraft, and the much larger Hawker 750/800/850/900/1000 family, which descends from the British Aerospace BAe 125 -- a completely different type certificate. If you're researching one of these jets, confirm which family it actually belongs to before assuming the history applies.
Why the ownership chain matters here
A jet that has changed hands across three manufacturer-name eras has usually changed owners more than once too. The FAA can reissue a cancelled N-number to a different airframe after five years (14 CFR 47.15/47.17), so a search of only the current tail number can miss an accident filed under a prior registration -- or wrongly attach a different airframe's history to the one you're buying.
What a $79 report adds
Current FAA registration status, prior registrants, recent FAA filings (bills of sale, security agreements/liens), full NTSB accident and incident history, and the serial-number cross-match that catches an accident hiding under a prior tail number.
Check a specific tail number
Use our free tail-number lookup to check registration status and a summary of what a full report would show, or see our used aircraft pre-purchase checklist for what to budget alongside a history check.