Beech E33
N3493A is a Beech E33, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1969. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Papago Equipment LLC, an LLC in Bayfield, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 21, 2024 and expires on July 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for utility, dated November 4, 1969.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Beech
- Model
- E33 · all E33s and related versions
- Serial number
- CD-1234
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor I0-470 SERIES · 260 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1969
- Cruising speed
- 138 mph
- Transponder code
- A3E17F (octal 50760577)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 21, 2024
- Expires
- July 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- February 4, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Utility · November 4, 1969
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00282683
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Papago Equipment LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- PO Box 1591
Bayfield, CO 81122-1591
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
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N3493A, 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 Papago Equipment LLC, an LLC, certificate issued July 21, 2024, expires July 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for utility, dated November 4, 1969, consistent with the 1969 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial CD-1234 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N3493A was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-22 (serial 22-1765, cancelled February 19, 1958). 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 N3493A: Accident on September 16, 1985 at Coalinga, CA: no injuries, substantial damage. 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 E-33 · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX85FVA05 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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