Beech 35-A33
N78DC is a Beech 35-A33, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1961. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Findlay, Ohio. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 15, 2021 and expires on July 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for utility, dated June 30, 1961.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Beech
- Model
- 35-A33 · all 35-A33s and related versions
- Serial number
- CD-363
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor I0-470 SERIES · 260 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1961
- Cruising speed
- 138 mph
- Transponder code
- AA8E7B (octal 52507173)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 15, 2021
- Expires
- July 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 26, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Utility · June 30, 1961
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00271460
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Califf John C
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 10594 State Route 37
Findlay, OH 45840-9223
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
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N78DC, 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.
Valid registration to Califf John C, an individual, certificate issued July 15, 2021, expires July 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for utility, dated June 30, 1961, consistent with the 1961 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial CD-363 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N78DC was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cummins CB (serial 1, cancelled December 17, 1981). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]
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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N78DC. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]
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.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- 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