Sky DutyBeechcraft Musketeer/Sundowner: US Fleet Statistics
As of the FAA registry snapshot on July 11, 2026, there are 970 Beechcraft Musketeer/Sundowner aircraft with a valid US registration — ranking it #49 among all US civil aircraft model families by registration count. Every figure on this page is computed directly from the public FAA aircraft registry.
How many Beechcraft Musketeer/Sundowner aircraft are registered in the United States?
The FAA aircraft registry lists 970 Beechcraft Musketeer/Sundowner aircraft with a valid registration as of July 11, 2026. The Beechcraft Musketeer/Sundowner is a single-engine airplane, and this family groups every registered variant of the Beechcraft 23 together. It ranks #49 by registration count among the model families tracked in this dataset.
These counts come from the FAA MASTER file and reflect aircraft with an active “valid” registration status. To pull up the current owner, based state, and registration dates for a specific airframe, use the free FAA tail number lookup. To browse every model in this dataset, see the US aircraft fleet statistics index.
Beechcraft Musketeer/Sundowner registrations by state
Texas has the most registered Beechcraft Musketeer/Sundowner aircraft, with 92. The table below shows the ten states with the most Beechcraft Musketeer/Sundowner registrations by the owner address on file with the FAA.
| Rank | State | Registered | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Texas (TX) | 92 | 9.5% |
| 2 | Florida (FL) | 78 | 8.0% |
| 3 | California (CA) | 60 | 6.2% |
| 4 | Washington (WA) | 42 | 4.3% |
| 5 | Georgia (GA) | 39 | 4.0% |
| 6 | North Carolina (NC) | 30 | 3.1% |
| 7 | Arizona (AZ) | 29 | 3.0% |
| 8 | Michigan (MI) | 29 | 3.0% |
| 9 | Oklahoma (OK) | 28 | 2.9% |
| 10 | Wisconsin (WI) | 27 | 2.8% |
Share is of all 970 registered Beechcraft Musketeer/Sundowner aircraft. Based on FAA registered-owner state; not all aircraft are based where they are registered.
How old are registered Beechcraft Musketeer/Sundowner aircraft?
The median registered Beechcraft Musketeer/Sundowner was manufactured in 1969. Most were built between 1963 and 1979, and manufacture years across the registered fleet span roughly 1962 to 1983. A manufacture year is on file for 811 of the 970 registered aircraft.
Model year is one of the fields Sky Duty tracks on every tail alongside Hobbs and tach times. See how the app handles aircraft and fleet records.
Beechcraft Musketeer/Sundowner engine, seats, and aircraft class
The typical registered Beechcraft Musketeer/Sundowner is a single-engine airplane with a single piston engine, configured with 4 seats. The values below are the most common across all registered Beechcraft Musketeer/Sundowner aircraft in the FAA data; individual airframes vary by variant and configuration.
- Aircraft class
- Fixed Wing Single-Engine
- Engines
- 1 × Piston
- Typical seats
- 4
- Manufacturer
- Beechcraft
Data: FAA Releasable Aircraft Database (registry.faa.gov), snapshot 2026-07-11. Counts reflect US civil aircraft with a valid FAA registration (status codes V, M, and T). Variants of the Beechcraft 23 are grouped into a single model family. Manufacture-year bounds use the 1st and 99th percentiles to exclude data-entry outliers in the FAA year field. Figures update when the registry is re-imported.
Frequently Asked Questions
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