Granville Brothers Aircraft GEE BEE SPORTSTER D
N13043 is a Granville Brothers Aircraft GEE BEE SPORTSTER D, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Robinson, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 28, 2011 and expires on September 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated June 1, 1936.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Granville Brothers Aircraft
- Model
- GEE BEE SPORTSTER D
- Serial number
- D-1
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Menasco 0-45 · 22 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A07E31 (octal 50077061)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 28, 2011
- Expires
- September 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 17, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · June 1, 1936
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00505560
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sowders Bertie H
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 930 Ivan
Robinson, TX 76706-6005
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 · 1 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N13043, 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 Sowders Bertie H, an individual, certificate issued September 28, 2011, expires September 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial D-1 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N13043 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Waco UEC (serial 3658, cancelled July 19, 1948); Grumman SA 16A (serial 146429, cancelled date not given). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N13043. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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
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