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N696WH

Raytheon Aircraft Company A36

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesKentucky

N696WH is a Raytheon Aircraft Company A36, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 6 seats. It is registered to an individual in Hopkinsville, Kentucky. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 7, 2024 and expires on September 30, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for utility, dated October 27, 1996.

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Aircraft

Maker
Raytheon Aircraft Company
Model
A36 · all A36s 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. This is how the Beechcraft A36 Bonanza 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
E-3048
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 IO-550-B · 300 hp
Fuel
100LL avgas
Seats
6
Year built
Not given
Transponder code
A942FC (octal 52241374)

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 7, 2024
Expires
September 30, 2031
Last FAA action
September 7, 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 · October 27, 1996
FAA region
CentralFAA region code 3 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00866291

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Garnett Charles Wade
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
1595 John Rives Rd
Hopkinsville, KY 42240-9388

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Documents on file 0

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

Connections how N696WH links to the rest of the register

Design
Engine
Place
Airworthiness

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Records check free · 0 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N696WH, 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 Garnett Charles Wade, an individual, certificate issued September 7, 2024, expires September 30, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

NOTEAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for utility; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial E-3048 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N696WH 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 N696WH. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

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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 November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search

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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 10, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data