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N3500B

Beech D18S

Valid Florida

N3500B is a Beech D18S, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1953. It has 10 seats. It is registered to Walter Charles T JR, a partnership in Ocala, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 13, 2019 and expires on May 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated September 15, 1955.

Aircraft

Maker
Beech
Model
D18S · all D18Ss and related versions
Serial number
A-973
Type
Fixed-wing, multi-engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors · P&W R-985 SERIES · 450 hp
Seats
10
Year built
1953
Cruising speed
165 mph
Transponder code
A3E727 (octal 50763447)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
May 13, 2019
Expires
May 31, 2029
Last FAA action
August 4, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · September 15, 1955
FAA region
Southern
FAA record id
00602723

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Walter Charles T JR
Type
Partnership
Address
8870 SE 70Th Ter
Ocala, FL 34472-3410
Co-owners
Zoellner Barbara R

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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 N3500B, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Walter Charles T JR, a partnership, certificate issued May 13, 2019, expires May 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate, dated September 15, 1955, consistent with the 1953 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial A-973 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N3500B according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N3500B. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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