Beech F33A
N1978S is a Beech F33A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1976. It has 5 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 27, 2022 and expires on January 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for utility, dated April 19, 1976.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Beech
- Model
- F33A · all F33As and related versions
- Serial number
- CE-640
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor IO 520 SERIES · 285 hp
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- 1976
- Cruising speed
- 138 mph
- Transponder code
- A185AD (octal 50302655)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 27, 2022
- Expires
- January 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Utility · April 19, 1976
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00073060
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Watson Jeffry T
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 14316 Spyglass Hill Pl
Colorado Springs, CO 80921-1516 - Co-owners
- Watson Pamela D
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 N1978S, 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 Watson Jeffry T, a co-owned, certificate issued January 27, 2022, expires January 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for utility, dated April 19, 1976, consistent with the 1976 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial CE-640 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N1978S according to the deregistered file. [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 N1978S. 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 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 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