{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1959-09-03","airworthiness_ops":"","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2023-05-18","city":"PORTLAND","country_code":"US","county_code":"051","cruise_speed_mph":150,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"17027","engine_horsepower":260,"engine_maker":"CONT MOTOR","engine_model":"I0-470 SERIES","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2030-05-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2024-10-22","maker":"Beech","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"BEECH","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"1151524","mode_s_code":"53242753","mode_s_hex":"AD45EB","model":"K35","n_number":"N9540R","name":"GORMAN JEFFRY S","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Summer Lake","damage":"SUBS","date":"2025-12-23","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"WPR26FA068","probable_cause":"","registration":"N9540R","state":"OR","summary":"Accident on December 23, 2025 at Summer Lake, OR: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal).","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"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.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Gorman Jeffry S, an individual, certificate issued May 18, 2023, expires May 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate, dated September 3, 1959, consistent with the 1959 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial D-6103 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N9540R according to the deregistered file.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"1 NTSB record under N9540R: Accident on December 23, 2025 at Summer Lake, OR: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal). Details below.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Title chain, liens and 337 forms","source":null,"status":"PENDING"},{"finding":"AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.","item":"Airworthiness directives and utilization","source":null,"status":"PENDING"}],"records_check_sources":[{"n":1,"name":"FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":2,"name":"FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download)","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":3,"name":"FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":4,"name":"NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL)","url":"https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search"}],"region":"Northwest Mountain","region_code":"S","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":5,"serial_number":"D-6103","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"OR","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"2450 NW 119TH AVE","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00574620","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N9540R","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1959,"zip":"972294766"}