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N1310C

Watson Thomas STEEN SKYBOLT

Valid Illinois

N1310C is a Watson Thomas STEEN SKYBOLT, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1981. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Chicago, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 16, 2018 and expires on July 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated December 15, 1982.

Aircraft

Maker
Watson Thomas
Model
STEEN SKYBOLT
Serial number
TW-1
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor IO 520 SERIES · 285 hp
Seats
2
Year built
1981
Transponder code
A08143 (octal 50100503)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
July 16, 2018
Expires
July 31, 2028
Last FAA action
May 26, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · December 15, 1982
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
00260993

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Graupman Gerald
Type
Individual
Address
300 N State St Unit 5605
Chicago, IL 60654

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Documents on file 0

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

Earlier use of this number 2

1990-10-09Cessna 550 · exported to Brazil · Valid, assigned to the manufacturer under its dealer certificate
1971-12-15Piper PA-20 · Valid registration

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N1310C, 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 Graupman Gerald, an individual, certificate issued July 16, 2018, expires July 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated December 15, 1982, consistent with the 1981 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial TW-1 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N1310C was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna 550 (serial 5500645, cancelled October 9, 1990); Piper PA-20 (serial 20-975, cancelled December 15, 1971). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N1310C. 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