Beech 35-B33
N285BW is a Beech 35-B33, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1961. It has 4 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Chadron, Nebraska. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 2, 1976 and expires on October 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for utility, dated February 19, 1982.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Beech
- Model
- 35-B33 · all 35-B33s and related versions
- Serial number
- CD-400
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor I0-470 SERIES · 260 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1961
- Cruising speed
- 138 mph
- Transponder code
- A2E0BC (octal 50560274)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 2, 1976
- Expires
- October 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 16, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Utility · February 19, 1982
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00511840
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Watson Alex
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 364 Beaver Valley Rd
Chadron, NE 69337-5112 - Co-owners
- Watson Gillie S
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.
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The public federal record on N285BW, 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 Alex, a co-owned, certificate issued November 2, 1976, expires October 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated February 19, 1982, 21 years after the 1961 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial CD-400 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N285BW 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]
1 NTSB record under N285BW: Accident on November 15, 2024 at Nunn, CO: 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.
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 35-B33 · operated under 091
On November 15, 2024, about 1000 mountain standard time (MST), a Beech 35-B33, N285BW, was destroyed when it was involved in an accident near Nunn, Colorado. The pilot was fatally injured. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 personal flight. The flight originated from Chadron Municipal Airport (KCDR), Chadron, Nebraska, with an intended destination of Platte Valley Airport (18V), Hudson, Colorado; a distance of about 180 nautical miles (nm). No ADS-B, radar data, or ATC communications were obtained at the time of the on site investigation. Day visual me…
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- 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data