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Beech J35
N980SE is a Beech J35, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 5 seats. It is registered to Kfg Aviation INC, a corporation in Huntersville, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 29, 2024 and expires on March 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for utility, dated May 18, 1981.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Beech
- Model
- J35 · all J35s 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 J35 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
- D5580
- 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-470-C · 250 hp
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 150 mph
- Transponder code
- ADACB9 (octal 53326271)
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 29, 2024
- Expires
- March 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- March 29, 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 · May 18, 1981
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00061782
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Kfg Aviation INC
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 6312 Muir Ct
Huntersville, NC 28078-3300
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 N980SE links to the rest of the register
- Beechcraft J35 221 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
- Continental IO-470-C 3 aircraft with this engine series · 250 hp
- Type certificate 3A15 · held by Beech Aircraft CORP Nka Textron Aviation INC
- Kfg Aviation INC 6 aircraft in the fleet
- Huntersville, NC 52 aircraft registered in this town
- North Carolina 7,125 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Beechcraft J35 6 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Beechcraft J35 12 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Beechcraft J35 147 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Continental IO-470-C 26 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Continental IO-470-C 18 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N980SE, 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 Kfg Aviation INC, a corporation, certificate issued March 29, 2024, expires March 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for utility; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial D5580 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N980SE 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 N980SE. 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 October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 26, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data