Beech A36
N2882W is a Beech A36, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1973. It has 6 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Saratoga, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 18, 1979 and expires on July 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for utility, dated July 25, 1973.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Beech
- Model
- A36 · all A36s and related versions
- Serial number
- E-452
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor IO 520 SERIES · 285 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1973
- Cruising speed
- 138 mph
- Transponder code
- A2EE66 (octal 50567146)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 18, 1979
- Expires
- July 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 26, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Utility · July 25, 1973
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00980533
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Wholey James
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 21020 Canyon View Dr
Saratoga, CA 95070 - Co-owners
- Wholey Louise
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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 N2882W, 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 Wholey James, a co-owned, certificate issued October 18, 1979, expires July 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for utility, dated July 25, 1973, consistent with the 1973 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial E-452 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N2882W 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 N2882W: Accident on March 23, 2026 at Olympic Valley, CA: fatal, substantial damage (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 A36 · operated under 091
On March 22, 2026, at 1716 Pacific daylight time, a Beech A36, N2882W, was substantially damaged when it was involved in an accident near Olympic Valley, California. The pilot was fatally injured. The airplane was operated as a Title14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 personal cross-country flight. According to the ADS-B data provided by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the airplane departed Monterey Regional Airport (MRY), Monterey, California, at 1411 and was destined for the Truckee-Tahoe Airport (TRK), Truckee, California. Recorded communication indicated that when the airplan…
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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 September 30, 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