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N8159R

Beech F33A

N8159R is a Beech F33A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1974. It has 5 seats. It is registered to an individual in San Francisco, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 1, 2004 and expires on December 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for utility, dated August 7, 1974.

Aircraft

Maker
Beech
Model
F33A · all F33As and related versions
Serial number
CE-527
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor IO 520 SERIES · 285 hp
Seats
5
Year built
1974
Cruising speed
138 mph
Transponder code
AB1F92 (octal 52617622)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
June 1, 2004
Expires
December 31, 2027
Last FAA action
April 7, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Utility · August 7, 1974
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
00140132

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Wiencke John K
Type
Individual
Address
42 Cragmont Ave
San Francisco, CA 94116-1308

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.

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N8159R, 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 Wiencke John K, an individual, certificate issued June 1, 2004, expires December 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for utility, dated August 7, 1974, consistent with the 1974 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial CE-527 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N8159R 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 N8159R. 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