N1553W

Beech 58 · built 1972

Register facts: FAA Aircraft Registry (Releasable Aircraft Database) (open data).

FlightFinder has no observed route profile for this registration. The documented safety events below are available independently of live flight tracking.

Safety history

  • August 3, 1976AccidentHull loss

    Crankshaft; Fatigue Fracture

    Beech 58 · 6 fatalities

    The National Transportation Safety Board determined that the probable cause of this accident was "the sudden failure of the airplane's left engine at a point on the takeoff flightpath where the airplane's single-engine performance in the takeoff configuration and its height above the ground combined to make the pilot's ability to sustain flight marginal. Full accident record