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N4257B

Beech F35

Valid Illinois

N4257B is a Beech F35, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1955. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Aledo, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 25, 2014 and expires on August 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated March 14, 1970.

Aircraft

Maker
Beech
Model
F35 · all F35s and related versions
Serial number
D-4234
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor E225 SERIES · 225 hp
Seats
4
Year built
1955
Cruising speed
131 mph
Transponder code
A51181 (octal 51210601)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
August 25, 2014
Expires
August 31, 2027
Last FAA action
March 10, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · March 14, 1970
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
00751844

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Lindell Michael V
Type
Individual
Address
603 SW 9Th St
Aledo, IL 61231-2313

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.

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N4257B, 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 Lindell Michael V, an individual, certificate issued August 25, 2014, expires August 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated March 14, 1970, 15 years after the 1955 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]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial D-4234 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N4257B 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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N4257B: Accident on March 25, 2002 at Amarillo, TX: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.

NTSB records 1

FTW02LA129Accident on March 25, 2002 at Amarillo, TX: no injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Beech F35 · operated under 091

Flutter due to the improper balance of the ruddervator, which resulted in structural damage to the aft fuselage.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW02LA129 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

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