Beech T-34C-1
N4872M is a Beech T-34C-1, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboprop engines, built in 1978. It has 3 seats. It is registered to Tumbleweed Leasing LLC, an LLC in Tacoma, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 23, 2026 and expires on April 30, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for acrobatic, dated April 29, 2020.
Where is it now Last seen yesterday at 5:21 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Beech
- Model
- T-34C-1 · all T-34C-1s 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 T-34 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
- GM-47
- 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
- TurbopropFAA type of engine code 2 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · P&W Canada PT6A-25 · 550 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1978
- Transponder code
- A60544 (octal 51402504)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- April 23, 2026
- Expires
- April 30, 2033
- Last FAA action
- April 23, 2026
- 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 · AcrobaticFAA certificate purpose code A (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · April 29, 2020
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00700405
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Tumbleweed Leasing LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 732 Broadway Ste 201
Tacoma, WA 98402-3702
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
Connections how N4872M links to the rest of the register
- Beechcraft T-34 97 registered
- Beech 17,448 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-25 4 aircraft with this engine series · 550 hp
- Tumbleweed Leasing LLC 9 aircraft in the fleet
- Tacoma, WA 137 aircraft registered in this town
- Tacoma Narrows Airport · TIW
- Washington 10,570 aircraft registered
- Failure reports filed on the Beechcraft T-34 13 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Beechcraft T-34 9 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-25 4 airworthiness directives
- Where N4872M is now · Last seen yesterday at 5:21 pm.
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The public federal record on N4872M, 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 Tumbleweed Leasing LLC, an LLC, certificate issued April 23, 2026, expires April 30, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 29, 2020, 42 years after the 1978 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 GM-47 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N4872M was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-11 (serial 11-386, cancelled May 20, 1965). 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 N4872M. 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 October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data