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Beech 36
N221DP is a Beech 36, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1968. It has 6 seats. It is registered to an individual in Billings, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 16, 2021 and expires on June 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for utility, dated May 24, 1968.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Beech
- Model
- 36 · all 36s and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Beechcraft 36 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
- E-6
- 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
- 1968
- Cruising speed
- 138 mph
- Transponder code
- A1E511 (octal 50362421)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- June 16, 2021
- Expires
- June 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 19, 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 · UtilityFAA certificate purpose code U (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · May 24, 1968
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00543555
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Mckenney Bret K
- 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
- 1426 Rosebud Ln
Billings, MT 59101-6526
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
Connections how N221DP links to the rest of the register
- Beechcraft 36 Bonanza 111 registered
- Beech 17,447 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Continental IO-520 series 9,486 aircraft with this engine series · 285 hp
- Billings, MT 345 aircraft registered in this town
- Billings Logan International · BIL
- Montana 6,045 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Beechcraft 36 Bonanza 4 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Beechcraft 36 Bonanza 62 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Beechcraft 36 Bonanza 152 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Continental IO-520 series 30 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Continental IO-520 series 465 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N221DP, 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 Mckenney Bret K, an individual, certificate issued June 16, 2021, expires June 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for utility, dated May 24, 1968, consistent with the 1968 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial E-6 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N221DP was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Skillman G. Lee THORP T-18 (serial 294, cancelled November 17, 1993). 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 N221DP: Accident on June 13, 1993 at Chatham, MA: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). 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.
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Skillman THORP T-18 · operated under 091
the pilot's performance of an aerobatic maneuver, with insufficient altitude for recovery, resulting in a collision with the water
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 27, 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 27, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data