Beech A36
N4972M is a Beech A36, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1978. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Zenith Air LLC, an LLC in Salome, Arizona. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 24, 2023 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for utility, dated May 8, 1978.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Beech
- Model
- A36 · all A36s and related versions
- Serial number
- E-1275
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor IO 520 SERIES · 285 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1978
- Cruising speed
- 138 mph
- Transponder code
- A62CC3 (octal 51426303)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 24, 2023
- Expires
- April 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- November 18, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Utility · May 8, 1978
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00800735
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Zenith Air LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- PO Box 2815
Salome, AZ 85348-2815
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 N4972M, 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 Zenith Air LLC, an LLC, certificate issued April 24, 2023, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for utility, dated May 8, 1978, consistent with the 1978 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial E-1275 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N4972M was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-11 (serial 11-460, cancelled January 30, 1950). 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 N4972M: Accident on June 22, 2012 at Rock Springs, WY: 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 A36 · operated under 091
The total loss of engine power due to fuel starvation because of the incorrectly installed fuel cap. Contributing to the accident was the pilot’s decision to continue the flight using fuel from the left fuel tank after she observed fuel streaming from the left fuel tank cap.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR12LA309 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