Raytheon Aircraft Company B36TC
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
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.
Valid registration to Bunke Jim Bradley, an individual, certificate issued January 5, 2021, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for utility, dated August 25, 2000, consistent with the 2000 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial EA-657 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
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]
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 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]
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: 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
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
- 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
