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N523ZA

Beech V35B

Valid Texas

N523ZA is a Beech V35B, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1974. It has 6 seats. It is registered to an individual in Booker, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 20, 2005 and expires on October 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for utility, dated February 20, 1974. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).

Aircraft

Maker
Beech
Model
V35B · all V35Bs and related versions
Serial number
D-9596
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor IO 520 SERIES · 285 hp
Seats
6
Year built
1974
Cruising speed
150 mph
Transponder code
A69653 (octal 51513123)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
July 20, 2005
Expires
October 31, 2027
Last FAA action
March 24, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Utility · February 20, 1974
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
00832385

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Sheppard Richard A
Type
Individual
Address
PO Box 783
Booker, TX 79005-0783

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Documents on file 1

2026-09-01Bill of sale (evidence of ownership)

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The public federal record on N523ZA, 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 Sheppard Richard A, an individual, certificate issued July 20, 2005, expires October 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for utility, dated February 20, 1974, consistent with the 1974 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial D-9596 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N523ZA according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 1, 2026). [3]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N523ZA. 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 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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