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N7542N

Beech 36

Valid Iowa

N7542N is a Beech 36, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1968. It has 6 seats. It is registered to an individual in Iowa City, Iowa. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 13, 2025 and expires on October 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for utility, dated July 23, 1968.

Aircraft

Maker
Beech
Model
36 · all 36s and related versions
Serial number
E-57
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor IO 520 SERIES · 285 hp
Seats
6
Year built
1968
Cruising speed
138 mph
Transponder code
AA2B90 (octal 52425620)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
October 13, 2025
Expires
October 31, 2032
Last FAA action
October 13, 2025
Airworthiness
Standard · Utility · July 23, 1968
FAA region
Central
FAA record id
00112797

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Hale Benjamin
Type
Individual
Address
1417 Tamarack Trl
Iowa City, IA 52245-3569

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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 N7542N, 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 Hale Benjamin, an individual, certificate issued October 13, 2025, expires October 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for utility, dated July 23, 1968, consistent with the 1968 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial E-57 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N7542N 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 N7542N. 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