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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 11, 2026Balz Gunther W PITTS MODEL 12
N13GB is a Balz Gunther W PITTS MODEL 12, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2010. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Center Point, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 6, 2020 and expires on May 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated August 23, 2011.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Balz Gunther W
- Model
- PITTS MODEL 12
- Serial number
- 304
- 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 · Vedeneyev M14P · 350 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2010
- Kit
- JIM KIMBALL ENTERPRISES PITTS MODEL 12
- Transponder code
- A07970 (octal 50074560)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- May 6, 2020
- Expires
- May 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 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 · August 23, 2011
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01055028
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Lipka Will G
- 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
- 1446 Elm Pass Rd
Center Point, TX 78010-5585
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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 N13GB links to the rest of the register
- Balz Gunther W 2 aircraft on the register
- Vedeneyev M14P 174 aircraft with this engine series · 350 hp
- Center Point, TX 5 aircraft registered in this town
- Texas 29,979 aircraft registered
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The public federal record on N13GB, 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 Lipka Will G, an individual, certificate issued May 6, 2020, expires May 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated August 23, 2011, consistent with the 2010 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 304 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N13GB was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Berry STEEN SKYBOLT (serial B1, cancelled September 10, 1997). 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 N13GB. 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 November 11, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 11, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 11, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 11, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data