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N9870S

Beaver Donald W MK IV

Valid Texas

N9870S is a Beaver Donald W MK IV, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1994. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Bryson, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 28, 2014 and expires on February 28, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated November 3, 1994.

Aircraft

Maker
Beaver Donald W
Model
MK IV
Serial number
1382D
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Subaru ALL MDLS A/B · 400 hp
Seats
2
Year built
1994
Transponder code
ADC78E (octal 53343616)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
February 28, 2014
Expires
February 28, 2027
Last FAA action
January 22, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · November 3, 1994
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
00914652

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Kinder Gerald E
Type
Individual
Address
1283 Fm 1191 N
Bryson, TX 76427-4011

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N9870S, 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 Kinder Gerald E, an individual, certificate issued February 28, 2014, expires February 28, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated November 3, 1994, consistent with the 1994 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1382D for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N9870S according to the deregistered file. [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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N9870S. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.

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 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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data