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N983DB

Raytheon Aircraft Company B36TC

Valid Colorado

N983DB is a Raytheon Aircraft Company B36TC, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2000. It has 6 seats. It is registered to an individual in Denver, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 5, 2021 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for utility, dated August 25, 2000.

Aircraft

Maker
Raytheon Aircraft Company
Model
B36TC · all B36TCs and related versions
Serial number
EA-657
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor TSIO-520 SER · 300 hp
Seats
6
Year built
2000
Transponder code
ADB696 (octal 53333226)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
January 5, 2021
Expires
January 31, 2028
Last FAA action
April 14, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Utility · August 25, 2000
FAA region
Northwest Mountain
FAA record id
00855990

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Bunke Jim Bradley
Type
Individual
Address
4505 S Yosemite St Unit 128
Denver, CO 80237-2518

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.

Earlier use of this number 2

1999-11-15Piper PA-28-181 · Valid registration
1992-12-15Betchan Donald L KR-II · Valid registration

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N983DB, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Bunke Jim Bradley, an individual, certificate issued January 5, 2021, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for utility, dated August 25, 2000, consistent with the 2000 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial EA-657 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N983DB was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Piper PA-28-181 (serial 2843247, cancelled November 15, 1999); Betchan Donald L KR-II (serial 3844, cancelled December 15, 1992). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

2 NTSB records under N983DB: Accident on June 9, 1999 at Auburn, AL: no injuries, destroyed. Accident on August 1, 1992 at Louisville, KY: minor injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

NTSB records 2

MIA99LA170Accident on June 9, 1999 at Auburn, AL: no injuries, destroyed.serial on NTSB record: 2843247

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-28-181 · operated under 091

The pilot' failure to refuel the airplane prior to fuel exhaustion.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for MIA99LA170 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

NYC92LA137Accident on August 1, 1992 at Louisville, KY: minor injuries, substantial damage.serial on NTSB record: 3844

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Donald L. Betchan KR-II · operated under 091

IMPROPER USE OF THE FLIGHT CONTROLS BY THE PROSPECTIVE BUYER, AND THE FAILURE OF THE OWNER/OPERATOR TO ADEQUATELY SUPERVISE THE PROSPECTIVE BUYER. FACTORS RELATED TO THE ACCIDENT WERE THE LACK OF EXPERIENCE IN TYPE OF AIRPLANE FOR THE PROSPECTIVE BUYER, AND THE LACK OF A RESTRAINT SYSTEM FOR THE PASSENGER.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for NYC92LA137 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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