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N5581T

Beech F33A

N5581T is a Beech F33A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1989. It has 5 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Scituate, Massachusetts. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 3, 2020 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for utility, dated June 12, 1989.

Aircraft

Maker
Beech
Model
F33A · all F33As and related versions
Serial number
CE-1350
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor IO 520 SERIES · 285 hp
Seats
5
Year built
1989
Cruising speed
138 mph
Transponder code
A71FB0 (octal 51617660)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
April 3, 2020
Expires
April 30, 2030
Last FAA action
October 20, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Utility · June 12, 1989
FAA region
New England
FAA record id
00204591

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Christenson Timothy M
Type
Co-owned
Address
3 Eagle Nest Rd
Scituate, MA 02066-4611
Co-owners
Christenson Simone P

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Documents on file 0

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

Earlier use of this number 1

1972-02-28Cessna 172E · Valid registration

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N5581T, 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 Christenson Timothy M, a co-owned, certificate issued April 3, 2020, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for utility, dated June 12, 1989, consistent with the 1989 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial CE-1350 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N5581T was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 172E (serial 17251481, cancelled February 28, 1972). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N5581T: Accident on October 12, 2015 at Marana, AZ: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.

NTSB records 1

GAA16CA013Accident on October 12, 2015 at Marana, AZ: no injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Beech F33 · operated under 091

The student pilot's failure to maintain sufficient airspeed during the base to final turn resulting in an inadvertent aerodynamic stall and impact with terrain during recovery by the flight instructor.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for GAA16CA013 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

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