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A Beechcraft V35 Bonanza, the same model family as N173T
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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026
N173T

Beech V35

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesSouth Dakota

N173T is a Beech V35, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 6 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Iroquois, South Dakota. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 5, 2024 and expires on November 30, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for utility, dated August 9, 1966.

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Aircraft

Maker
Beech
Model
V35 · all V35s and related versions
Built of
aluminium
The airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Beechcraft V35 Bonanza 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-8259
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 IO 520 SERIES · 285 hp
Seats
6
Year built
Not given
Cruising speed
150 mph
Transponder code
A125FB (octal 50222773)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
November 5, 2024
Expires
November 30, 2031
Last FAA action
November 5, 2024
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 · UtilityFAA certificate purpose code U (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · August 9, 1966
FAA region
Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00262360

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Aughenbaugh Timothy A
Type
Co-ownedFAA type of owner code 4 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Address
21024 421St Ave
Iroquois, SD 57353-6211
Co-owners
Aughenbaugh Alan M

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 2

1965-05-18Erco 415-C · Valid registration
1957-04-03Piper PA-18-105 SPECIAL · exported to Canada · Valid registration

Connections how N173T links to the rest of the register

Design
Engine
Place
  • Iroquois, SD 7 aircraft registered in this town
  • South Dakota 2,276 aircraft registered

The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N173T.json.

Records check free · 1 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N173T, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Aughenbaugh Timothy A, a co-owned, certificate issued November 5, 2024, expires November 30, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

NOTEAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for utility; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial D-8259 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N173T was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Erco 415-C (serial 3337, cancelled May 18, 1965); Piper PA-18-105 SPECIAL (serial 18-2287, cancelled April 3, 1957). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N173T. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data