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N8485N

Beech V35A

Valid Texas

N8485N 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 co-owned owners in Plano, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 21, 2013 and expires on November 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for utility, dated May 14, 1968. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).

Aircraft

Maker
Beech
Model
V35A · all V35As and related versions
Serial number
D-8821
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
ABA0A5 (octal 52720245)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
November 21, 2013
Expires
November 30, 2029
Last FAA action
September 15, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Utility · May 14, 1968
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
00482901

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Benningfield James L
Type
Co-owned
Address
3812 Timberline Dr
Plano, TX 75074-4002
Co-owners
Sanders Shay C

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Documents on file 1

2026-09-11Bill of sale (evidence of ownership)

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N8485N, 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 Benningfield James L, a co-owned, certificate issued November 21, 2013, expires November 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for utility, dated May 14, 1968, consistent with the 1968 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial D-8821 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N8485N according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 11, 2026). [3]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N8485N. 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