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N563DP

Beech A45

Valid Montana

N563DP is a Beech A45, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1962. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Kalispell, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 9, 2024 and expires on February 28, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated August 23, 1962.

Aircraft

Maker
Beech
Model
A45 · all A45s and related versions
Serial number
53-4114A
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor O-470 SERIES · 230 hp
Seats
2
Year built
1962
Cruising speed
141 mph
Transponder code
A73268 (octal 51631150)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
February 9, 2024
Expires
February 28, 2031
Last FAA action
February 9, 2024
Airworthiness
Standard · August 23, 1962
FAA region
Northwest Mountain
FAA record id
00333100

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Smith James E Trustee
Type
Co-owned
Address
PO Box 8177
Kalispell, MT 59904-1177
Co-owners
Talcott Jeri K Trustee

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.

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N563DP, 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 Smith James E Trustee, a co-owned, certificate issued February 9, 2024, expires February 28, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate, dated August 23, 1962, consistent with the 1962 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 53-4114A for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N563DP 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 N563DP. 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