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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026
N501RA

Beech 35-C33

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesNew York

N501RA is a Beech 35-C33, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1965. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Auburn, New York. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 26, 2024 and expires on September 30, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for utility, dated August 30, 1965.

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Aircraft

Maker
Beech
Model
35-C33 · all 35-C33s and related versions
Built of
aluminium
The airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. The V-tail Bonanza. This is how the Beechcraft 35 Bonanza and Debonair 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
CD-957
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 I0-470 SERIES · 260 hp
Seats
4
Year built
1965
Cruising speed
138 mph
Transponder code
A63F1F (octal 51437437)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
September 26, 2024
Expires
September 30, 2031
Last FAA action
October 24, 2024
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 · UtilityFAA certificate purpose code U (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · August 30, 1965
FAA region
EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00340985

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Dalton Charles
Type
IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Address
8 Alden Ave
Auburn, NY 13021-4302

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Connections how N501RA links to the rest of the register

Design
Engine
Place
  • Auburn, NY 20 aircraft registered in this town
  • New York 6,669 aircraft registered
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The public federal record on N501RA, 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 Dalton Charles, an individual, certificate issued September 26, 2024, expires September 30, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for utility, dated August 30, 1965, consistent with the 1965 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial CD-957 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N501RA 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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N501RA. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.

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 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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