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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 2, 2026Beech D95A
N8979M is a Beech D95A, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1964. It has 6 seats. It is registered to an individual in Fort Worth, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 19, 1990 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated January 15, 1964.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Beech
- Model
- D95A · all D95As 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 D95 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
- TD-564
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engineFAA type of aircraft code 5 (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, 2 motors · Lycoming I0360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1964
- Cruising speed
- 150 mph
- Transponder code
- AC62F4 (octal 53061364)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- March 19, 1990
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- September 30, 2023
- 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 · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · January 15, 1964
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00701541
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bean George W JR
- 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
- 2016 Windsor Pl
Fort Worth, TX 76110-1758
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No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N8979M links to the rest of the register
- Beechcraft D95 73 registered
- Beech 17,447 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming IO-360 series 8,558 aircraft with this engine series · 180 hp
- Fort Worth, TX 1,885 aircraft registered in this town
- Fort Worth Meacham International · FTW
- Fort Worth Spinks Airport · FWS
- Perot Fld/Fort Worth Alliance Airport · AFW
- Bourland Field · 50F
- 3 more landing places in town
- Texas 29,946 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Beechcraft D95 3 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Beechcraft D95 30 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Beechcraft D95 63 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming IO-360 series 42 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming IO-360 series 39 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N8979M, 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 Bean George W JR, an individual, certificate issued March 19, 1990, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated January 15, 1964, consistent with the 1964 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial TD-564 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N8979M 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N8979M. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data