Beech J35
N257M is a Beech J35, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1958. It has 5 seats. It is registered to an individual in Arlington, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 18, 1991 and expires on August 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated May 21, 1958.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Beech
- Model
- J35 · all J35s and related versions
- Serial number
- D-5604
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor I0-470 SERIES · 260 hp
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- 1958
- Cruising speed
- 150 mph
- Transponder code
- A27292 (octal 50471222)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 18, 1991
- Expires
- August 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · May 21, 1958
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00733082
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Willis Charles A
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1121 Forrest Dr
Arlington, TX 76012-2406
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 N257M, 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 Willis Charles A, an individual, certificate issued June 18, 1991, expires August 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate, dated May 21, 1958, consistent with the 1958 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial D-5604 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N257M 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 N257M. 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