Beech V35B
N1040W is a Beech V35B, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1979. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Foolish Pleasure Aviation INC, a corporation in Lewes, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 5, 2004 and expires on October 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for utility, dated November 13, 2001.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Beech
- Model
- V35B · all V35Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- D-10203
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). All codes, 1 motor · Cont Motor IO-550 SERIES · 300 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1979
- Cruising speed
- 150 mph
- Transponder code
- A015FD (octal 50012775)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). All codes
- Certificate issued
- November 5, 2004
- Expires
- October 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- August 5, 2025
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · UtilityFAA certificate purpose code U (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · November 13, 2001
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00313867
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Foolish Pleasure Aviation INC
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). All codes
- Address
- 16192 Coastal Hwy
Lewes, DE 19958-3608
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N1040W, read the way a buyer, lender or insurer reads it: FAA registration, prior tail numbers keyed on the serial number, reuse of the tail number, recent registry filings, and the NTSB accident record under this and every earlier registration.
Valid registration to Foolish Pleasure Aviation INC, a corporation, certificate issued November 5, 2004, expires October 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated November 13, 2001, 22 years after the 1979 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial D-10203 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N1040W was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Beech 58 (serial TH-309, cancelled July 26, 1979). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]
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. [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N1040W. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]
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.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
This automated check reads the public federal record. Nothing here is a legal opinion, an appraisal or a statement about the aircraft's condition; a CLEAR line is a statement about the searched record, not the aircraft.
Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data