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A Beechcraft K35 Bonanza, the same model family as N189AA
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N189AA

Beech K35

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

N189AA is a Beech K35, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1959. It has 5 seats. It is registered to an individual in Piedmont, South Dakota. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 15, 2022 and expires on January 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated June 26, 1959.

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Aircraft

Maker
Beech
Model
K35 · all K35s 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 K35 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-6024
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
1959
Cruising speed
150 mph
Transponder code
A1621C (octal 50261034)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
January 15, 2022
Expires
January 31, 2029
Last FAA action
July 7, 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 · June 26, 1959
FAA region
Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00432770

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Jungclaus Karl F
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
13550 Frontier Loop
Piedmont, SD 57769-7600

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.

Connections how N189AA links to the rest of the register

Design
Engine
Place
  • Piedmont, SD 21 aircraft registered in this town
  • South Dakota 2,273 aircraft registered
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The public federal record on N189AA, 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 Jungclaus Karl F, an individual, certificate issued January 15, 2022, expires January 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate, dated June 26, 1959, consistent with the 1959 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial D-6024 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N189AA 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 N189AA. 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 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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