2,708 Beechcraft King Airs are currently on the FAA registry — the best-selling business turboprop family in the world, spanning the light 90 series (C90A/C90GT/C90GTi/F90/B90, 750+ combined), the mid-size 200 series (B200/B200GT/A200, 700+ combined), and the large-cabin 300/350 series (B300/B300C, 900+ combined).
Why a decades-old fleet needs more than a tail-number search
King Airs have one of the longest service lives in business aviation — many still flying today were built in the 1970s and 1980s and have passed through corporate flight departments, air-ambulance operators, charter fleets, and multiple private owners since. That long a chain of custody is exactly where a current-tail-only search falls short: 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 tail number painted on the aircraft today can miss an accident recorded under a prior registration, or mistakenly attribute someone else's incident to the aircraft you're buying. Only a serial-number cross-match tells the two apart.
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 jet aircraft pre-purchase checklist for what to budget alongside a history check.