Butler John R SX 300
N120J is a Butler John R SX 300, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1988. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Rainbow Sports INC, a corporation in Enid, Oklahoma. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 14, 2009 and expires on April 30, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated July 6, 1988.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Butler John R
- Model
- SX 300
- Serial number
- 60
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-540 SER · 300 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1988
- Transponder code
- A0547A (octal 50052172)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 14, 2009
- Expires
- April 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 28, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · July 6, 1988
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00994201
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Rainbow Sports INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 3370
Enid, OK 73702-3370
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N120J, 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 Rainbow Sports INC, a corporation, certificate issued January 14, 2009, expires April 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated July 6, 1988, consistent with the 1988 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 60 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N120J 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]
2 NTSB records under N120J: Accident on January 3, 2012 at Truth Or Consequences, NM: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on June 12, 1999 at Hill Afb, UT: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Butler John R SX 300 · operated under 091
The pilot did not maintain airplane control during takeoff due to his distraction with the improperly secured canopy, which he forgot to latch.
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Aircraft on the NTSB record: Butler SX-300 · operated under 091
A failure of the left main landing gear attachment for undetermined reasons.
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- 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 September 30, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data