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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026Waddell Stephen M R80 TIGER MOTH
N135B is a Waddell Stephen M R80 TIGER MOTH, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2021. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Buffalo, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 15, 2021 and expires on March 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated April 16, 2021.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Waddell Stephen M
- Model
- R80 TIGER MOTH
- Serial number
- TM091
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Hirth F30 · 80 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2021
- Kit
- FISHER FLYING PRODUCTS R-80 TIGER MOTH
- Transponder code
- A08DDD (octal 50106735)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- March 15, 2021
- Expires
- March 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 28, 2023
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Amateur builtFAA certificate purpose code 2 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · April 16, 2021
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01331165
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Waddell Stephen M
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 562 Chamberlain Ave SE
Buffalo, MN 55313-4806
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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 1
Connections how N135B links to the rest of the register
- Waddell Stephen M 1 aircraft on the register
- Hirth F30 27 aircraft with this engine series · 80 hp
- Buffalo, MN 24 aircraft registered in this town
- Buffalo Municipal · CFE
- Minnesota 6,933 aircraft registered
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The public federal record on N135B, 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 Waddell Stephen M, an individual, certificate issued March 15, 2021, expires March 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated April 16, 2021, consistent with the 2021 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial TM091 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N135B was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Bell 47B3 (serial 55, cancelled August 22, 2012). 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 N135B. 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 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data