Beech A36
N4979M 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 an individual in Palos Park, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 30, 2016 and expires on August 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for utility, dated May 12, 1978.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Beech
- Model
- A36 · all A36s and related versions
- Serial number
- E-1281
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1978
- Cruising speed
- 138 mph
- Transponder code
- A62DB8 (octal 51426670)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 30, 2016
- Expires
- August 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- March 25, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Utility · May 12, 1978
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00510755
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Lager Eric Willard
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 8421 W 121St St
Palos Park, IL 60464-1229
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 N4979M, 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 Lager Eric Willard, an individual, certificate issued August 30, 2016, expires August 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for utility, dated May 12, 1978, consistent with the 1978 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial E-1281 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N4979M was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-11 (serial 11-467, cancelled July 8, 1963). 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 N4979M: Accident on October 14, 2010 at Pagosa Springs, CO: 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 pilot's improper flare, which resulted in a hard landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN11CA031 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