Beech A36
N1861M is a Beech A36, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1981. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Lightspeed Enterprises LLC, an LLC in Virginia Beach, Virginia. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 1, 2021 and expires on February 29, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for utility, dated October 8, 1981.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Beech
- Model
- A36 · all A36s and related versions
- Serial number
- E-1936
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor IO 520 SERIES · 285 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1981
- Cruising speed
- 138 mph
- Transponder code
- A1597D (octal 50254575)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 1, 2021
- Expires
- February 29, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 21, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Utility · October 8, 1981
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00573290
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Lightspeed Enterprises LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 1821 S Woodside Ln
Virginia Beach, VA 23454-1043
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 N1861M, 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 Lightspeed Enterprises LLC, an LLC, certificate issued February 1, 2021, expires February 29, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for utility, dated October 8, 1981, consistent with the 1981 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial E-1936 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N1861M was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Boeing A75N1 (serial 75-8578, cancelled May 2, 1972). 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]
1 NTSB record under N1861M: Accident on April 6, 2024 at Cleveland, OH: serious injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Beech A36 · operated under 091
The pilot’s failure to maintain control of the airplane during landing, resulting in a hard, bounced landing.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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