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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 2, 2026
N7979M

Beech V35

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesOregon

N7979M is a Beech V35, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 6 seats. It is registered to an individual in Lake Oswego, Oregon. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 7, 2023 and expires on October 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for utility, dated August 27, 1966.

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Aircraft

Maker
Beech
Model
V35 · all V35s 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 V35 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
D-8270
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 520 SERIES · 285 hp
Fuel
100LL avgas
Seats
6
Year built
Not given
Cruising speed
150 mph
Transponder code
AAD5A5 (octal 52552645)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
October 7, 2023
Expires
October 31, 2030
Last FAA action
October 7, 2023
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 · August 27, 1966
FAA region
Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00655300

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Francis William
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
2519 Orchard Hill Pl
Lake Oswego, OR 97035-1133

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Documents on file 0

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

Connections how N7979M links to the rest of the register

Design
Engine
Place
  • Lake Oswego, OR 68 aircraft registered in this town
  • Oregon 7,008 aircraft registered

The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N7979M.json.

Records check free · 0 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N7979M, 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 Francis William, an individual, certificate issued October 7, 2023, expires October 31, 2030. 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 D-8270 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N7979M 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 N7979M. 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 November 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data