Beech 3NM
N9540 is a Beech 3NM, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1952. It has 10 seats. It is registered to an individual in Saint Helena, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 12, 2016 and expires on February 28, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated April 24, 1973.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Beech
- Model
- 3NM · all 3NMs and related versions
- Serial number
- CA-244
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors · P&W R-985 SERIES · 450 hp
- Seats
- 10
- Year built
- 1952
- Cruising speed
- 153 mph
- Transponder code
- AD45DB (octal 53242733)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 12, 2016
- Expires
- February 28, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · April 24, 1973
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00644620
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Hardin Donald R
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 4500 Hardin Rd
Saint Helena, CA 94574-9600
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.
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The public federal record on N9540, 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 Hardin Donald R, an individual, certificate issued February 12, 2016, expires February 28, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 24, 1973, 21 years after the 1952 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial CA-244 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N9540 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]
2 NTSB records under N9540: Accident on May 12, 2012 at Pope Valley, CA: minor injuries, substantial damage. Accident on October 16, 1984 at Selawik, AK: 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Beech 3NM · operated under 091
A loss of power in one engine during takeoff, which resulted in a forced landing in a vineyard. The reason for the loss of engine power could not be determined from the available evidence.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR12LA201 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Beech 3NM · operated under 135
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ANC85LA006 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- 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