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Beech S35
N861T is a Beech S35, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1964. It has 6 seats. It is registered to an individual in Ada, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 19, 2024 and expires on August 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for utility, dated June 26, 1964.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Beech
- Model
- S35 · all S35s and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Beechcraft S35 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
- D-7507
- 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 520 SERIES · 285 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1964
- Cruising speed
- 150 mph
- Transponder code
- ABD437 (octal 52752067)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- August 19, 2024
- Expires
- August 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- August 19, 2024
- 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 · June 26, 1964
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00932501
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Hersman Scott
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 6772 Knapp St NE
Ada, MI 49301-9572
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.
Connections how N861T links to the rest of the register
- Beechcraft S35 Bonanza 459 registered
- Beech 17,446 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Continental IO-520 series 9,485 aircraft with this engine series · 285 hp
- Ada, MI 32 aircraft registered in this town
- Michigan 7,226 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Beechcraft S35 Bonanza 6 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Beechcraft S35 Bonanza 29 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Beechcraft S35 Bonanza 158 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Continental IO-520 series 30 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Continental IO-520 series 465 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N861T, 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.
Valid registration to Hersman Scott, an individual, certificate issued August 19, 2024, expires August 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for utility, dated June 26, 1964, consistent with the 1964 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial D-7507 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N861T according to the deregistered file. [2]
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]
1 NTSB record under N861T: Accident on August 9, 2025 at Lowell, MI: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Beech S35 · operated under 091
The pilot’s failure to extend the landing gear before landing.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 4, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data