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N8478N

Beech V35A

Valid Arizona

N8478N is a Beech V35A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1968. It has 6 seats. It is registered to an individual in Phoenix, Arizona. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 16, 2024 and expires on April 30, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for utility, dated April 25, 1968.

Aircraft

Maker
Beech
Model
V35A · all V35As and related versions
Serial number
D-8805
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor IO 520 SERIES · 285 hp
Seats
6
Year built
1968
Cruising speed
150 mph
Transponder code
AB9D57 (octal 52716527)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
April 16, 2024
Expires
April 30, 2031
Last FAA action
April 16, 2024
Airworthiness
Standard · Utility · April 25, 1968
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
00522891

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Mclenaghan Alvin N
Type
Individual
Address
300 W Willetta St Apt 12
Phoenix, AZ 85003-1252

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Documents on file 0

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

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N8478N, 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 Mclenaghan Alvin N, an individual, certificate issued April 16, 2024, expires April 30, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for utility, dated April 25, 1968, consistent with the 1968 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial D-8805 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N8478N 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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N8478N: Accident on February 16, 1983 at Sioux Falls, SD: serious injuries, destroyed. 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

DEN83FTK03Accident on February 16, 1983 at Sioux Falls, SD: serious injuries, destroyed.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Beech V35A · operated under 091

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DEN83FTK03 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