Beech 77
N3809Y is a Beech 77, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1980. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Sour Lake, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 31, 2014 and expires on March 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for utility, dated December 5, 1980.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Beech
- Model
- 77 · all 77s and related versions
- Serial number
- WA-212
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-235 SERIES · 115 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1980
- Transponder code
- A45EF4 (octal 51057364)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 31, 2014
- Expires
- March 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Utility · December 5, 1980
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00040244
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Shaffer Kent R
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 600 Morris Rd W
Sour Lake, TX 77659-8779 - Co-owners
- Shaffer Rhonda J
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 N3809Y, 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 Shaffer Kent R, a co-owned, certificate issued March 31, 2014, expires March 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for utility, dated December 5, 1980, consistent with the 1980 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial WA-212 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N3809Y was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 210D (serial 21058309, cancelled June 29, 1970). 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 N3809Y: Accident on December 9, 1990 at Fairbanks, AK: 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 BE-77 · operated under 091
THE PILOT-IN-COMMAND'S FAILURE TO PROPERLY PERFORM THE AIRCRAFT PREFLIGHT RESULTING IN A COLLISION WITH A TOW BAR DURING INITIAL TAXI.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC91LA016 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