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N8285C

Beech A36

Valid Arizona

N8285C 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 Bonanza Enterprise LLC, an LLC in Tucson, Arizona. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 20, 2011 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for utility, dated July 26, 1993.

Aircraft

Maker
Beech
Model
A36 · all A36s and related versions
Serial number
E-2810
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor TSIO-550 SER · 280 hp
Seats
6
Year built
1993
Cruising speed
138 mph
Transponder code
AB519D (octal 52650635)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
April 20, 2011
Expires
April 30, 2030
Last FAA action
October 20, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Utility · July 26, 1993
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
00534452

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Bonanza Enterprise LLC
Type
LLC
Address
310 S Williams Blvd Ste 170
Tucson, AZ 85711-7700

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 2

1978-12-05Piper PA-18-135 · Valid registration
—Piper PA-28-161 · N-number assigned but not yet registered

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N8285C, 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 Bonanza Enterprise LLC, an LLC, certificate issued April 20, 2011, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for utility, dated July 26, 1993, consistent with the 1993 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial E-2810 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N8285C was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Piper PA-18-135 (serial 18-3694, cancelled December 5, 1978); Piper PA-28-161 (serial 288116067, cancelled date not given). 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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N8285C: Accident on September 1, 1986 at Hampton, NH: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal). Details below. [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.

NTSB records 1

ATL86FA240Accident on September 1, 1986 at Hampton, NH: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal).serial on NTSB record: 288116067

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-28-161 · operated under 091

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ATL86FA240 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

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