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A Beechcraft A36 Bonanza, the same model family as N8209A
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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026
N8209A

Beech A36

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesKansas
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N8209A is a Beech A36, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1993. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Rocky Top Real Estate Investments LLC, an LLC in Paola, Kansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 22, 2026 and expires on January 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for utility, dated March 5, 1993.

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Aircraft

Maker
Beech
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-2781
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 SERIES · 300 hp
Seats
6
Year built
1993
Cruising speed
138 mph
Transponder code
AB346F (octal 52632157)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
January 22, 2026
Expires
January 31, 2033
Last FAA action
January 22, 2026
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 · March 5, 1993
FAA region
CentralFAA region code 3 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00544272

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Rocky Top Real Estate Investments LLC
Type
LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Address
24332 Somerset Rd
Paola, KS 66071-8411

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Documents on file 0

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

Earlier use of this number 2

1990-10-26Piper PA-28-181 · exported to Denmark · N-number assigned but not yet registered
1973-05-07Cessna 170B · Valid registration

Connections how N8209A links to the rest of the register

Design
Engine
Owner
Place
  • Paola, KS 20 aircraft registered in this town
  • Miami County · K81
  • Kansas 5,738 aircraft registered
Record
Airworthiness
Analytics
Live

The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N8209A.json.

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N8209A, 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 Rocky Top Real Estate Investments LLC, an LLC, certificate issued January 22, 2026, expires January 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for utility, dated March 5, 1993, consistent with the 1993 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial E-2781 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N8209A was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Piper PA-28-181 (serial 288290134, cancelled October 26, 1990); Cessna 170B (serial 25061, cancelled May 7, 1973). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N8209A. 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 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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.

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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data