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N17516

Beech V35B

Valid Texas

N17516 is a Beech V35B, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1977. It has 6 seats. It is registered to an individual in Richmond, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 31, 2024 and expires on May 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for utility, dated December 20, 1976.

Aircraft

Maker
Beech
Model
V35B · all V35Bs and related versions
Serial number
D-9978
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
Seats
6
Year built
1977
Cruising speed
150 mph
Transponder code
A12E5A (octal 50227132)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
May 31, 2024
Expires
May 31, 2031
Last FAA action
May 31, 2024
Airworthiness
Standard · Utility · December 20, 1976
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
00862400

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Gillis Alan
Type
Individual
Address
16 W Kitty Hawk St
Richmond, TX 77406-9710

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.

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N17516, 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 Gillis Alan, an individual, certificate issued May 31, 2024, expires May 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for utility, dated December 20, 1976, consistent with the 1977 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial D-9978 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N17516 according to the deregistered file. [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 N17516. 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 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through August 27, 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