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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 3, 2026Beech A35
N480AS is a Beech A35, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1949. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Arizona Air Salvage, a corporation in Phoenix, Arizona. The FAA lists the registration as "first notice for registration renewal" (certificate issued April 28, 2020). It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated October 21, 1955.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Beech
- Model
- A35 · all A35s and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Beechcraft A35 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- D-2124
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Cont Motor E185 SERIES · 205 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1949
- Cruising speed
- 120 mph
- Transponder code
- A5E8AA (octal 51364252)
Registration
- Status
- First notice for registration renewalFAA registration status code 25 (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- April 28, 2020
- Expires
- April 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · October 21, 1955
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00702062
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Arizona Air Salvage
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 3233 W Yuma St
Phoenix, AZ 85009-6201
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 2
Connections how N480AS links to the rest of the register
- Beechcraft A35 159 registered
- Beech 17,447 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Continental E185 series 1,107 aircraft with this engine series · 205 hp
- Arizona Air Salvage 7 aircraft in the fleet
- Phoenix, AZ 996 aircraft registered in this town
- Mesa Gateway Airport · IWA
- Phoenix Deer Valley Airport · DVT
- Phoenix Sky Harbor International · PHX
- Arizona 8,426 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Beechcraft A35 6 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Beechcraft A35 7 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Beechcraft A35 105 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Continental E185 series 7 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Continental E185 series 9 reports since 1995
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N480AS.json.
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The public federal record on N480AS, 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.
Registration status is "First notice for registration renewal". An aircraft cannot be operated on an invalid or expired registration; resolve this with the FAA before any transaction. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated October 21, 1955, 6 years after the 1949 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]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial D-2124 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N480AS was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Dorrell Donald E AMERICAN SPIRIT XL (serial 48, cancelled May 27, 2016); Bell 205A-1 (serial 30156, cancelled May 6, 1981). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N480AS. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 3, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data