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N6659L

Beech V35B

Valid Indiana

N6659L is a Beech V35B, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1979. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Control Data INC, a corporation in Indianapolis, Indiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 7, 2012 and expires on February 29, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for utility, dated July 30, 1979.

Aircraft

Maker
Beech
Model
V35B · all V35Bs and related versions
Serial number
D-10279
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor IO 520 SERIES · 285 hp
Seats
6
Year built
1979
Cruising speed
150 mph
Transponder code
A8CA6A (octal 52145152)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
February 7, 2012
Expires
February 29, 2028
Last FAA action
April 21, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Utility · July 30, 1979
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
00563036

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Control Data INC
Type
Corporation
Address
11715 Fox Rd Ste 400-203
Indianapolis, IN 46236-8421

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

1972-05-26Lake LA-4 · exported to Canada · Valid registration

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N6659L, 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 Control Data INC, a corporation, certificate issued February 7, 2012, expires February 29, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for utility, dated July 30, 1979, consistent with the 1979 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial D-10279 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N6659L was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Lake LA-4 (serial 422, cancelled May 26, 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 N6659L: Accident on February 2, 2024 at Clearwater, FL: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). 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

ERA24FA104Accident on February 2, 2024 at Clearwater, FL: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal).

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Beech V35 · operated under 091

An in-flight engine compartment fire due to a partially loose flexible fuel hose b-nut at the fuel metering unit. Contributing to the severity of the accident was the pilot’s inability to visually identify the destination airport at night, which prolonged the in-flight emergency.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA24FA104 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