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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 30, 2026Beech J35
N159A is a Beech J35, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1958. It has 5 seats. It is registered to an individual in Port Charlotte, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 12, 2023 and expires on September 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated May 16, 1958.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Beech
- Model
- J35 · all J35s and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Beechcraft J35 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- D-5598
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Cont Motor I0-470 SERIES · 260 hp
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- 1958
- Cruising speed
- 150 mph
- Transponder code
- A0EB9E (octal 50165636)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- September 12, 2023
- Expires
- September 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- September 12, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · May 16, 1958
- FAA region
- SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00460010
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Makray Joseph C
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 18249 Steele Ave
Port Charlotte, FL 33948-4926
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 2
Connections how N159A links to the rest of the register
- Beechcraft J35 221 registered
- Beech 17,447 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Continental IO-470 series 4,724 aircraft with this engine series · 260 hp
- Type certificate 3A15 · held by Beech Aircraft CORP Nka Textron Aviation INC
- Port Charlotte, FL 72 aircraft registered in this town
- Florida 21,712 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Beechcraft J35 6 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Beechcraft J35 12 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Beechcraft J35 147 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Continental IO-470 series 28 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Continental IO-470 series 114 reports since 1995
- Report filed on this aircraft: Actuator, leaking · 2000-03-27
- Report filed on this aircraft: Actuator, failed · 2000-03-27
- Report filed on this aircraft: Actuator, malfunctioned · 2000-03-26
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The public federal record on N159A, 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 Makray Joseph C, an individual, certificate issued September 12, 2023, expires September 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate, dated May 16, 1958, consistent with the 1958 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial D-5598 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N159A was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna 210L (serial 21061089, cancelled May 26, 2011); Embraer EMB-120RT (serial 120.159, cancelled October 24, 2007). 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 N159A. 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 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data