Beech K35
N9540R is a Beech K35, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1959. It has 5 seats. It is registered to an individual in Portland, Oregon. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 18, 2023 and expires on May 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated September 3, 1959.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Beech
- Model
- K35 · all K35s and related versions
- Serial number
- D-6103
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor I0-470 SERIES · 260 hp
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- 1959
- Cruising speed
- 150 mph
- Transponder code
- AD45EB (octal 53242753)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 18, 2023
- Expires
- May 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 22, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · September 3, 1959
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00574620
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Gorman Jeffry S
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 2450 NW 119Th Ave
Portland, OR 97229-4766
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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 N9540R, 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 Gorman Jeffry S, an individual, certificate issued May 18, 2023, expires May 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate, dated September 3, 1959, consistent with the 1959 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial D-6103 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N9540R 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 N9540R: Accident on December 23, 2025 at Summer Lake, OR: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal). 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 K35 · operated under 091
On December 23, 2025, about 0841 Pacific standard time, a Beech K35, N9540R, was substantially damaged when it was involved in an accident near Summer Lake, Oregon. The pilot was fatally injured. The airplane was being operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 personal flight. According to preliminary ADS-B flight track data, the airplane departed Susanville Municipal Airport (SVE), Susanville, California about 0730 and flew northwest. About 0752, the pilot requested visual flight rules (VFR) flight following to McNary Field (SLE), Salem, Oregon, with Seattle Air Route Traffi…
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- 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data