Socata TB 30 EPSILON
N153TB is a Socata TB 30 EPSILON, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1988. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in San Diego, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 9, 2020 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated June 13, 2020.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Socata
- Model
- TB 30 EPSILON · all TB 30 EPSILONs and related versions
- Serial number
- 153
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming AEIO540-L1B5D · 300 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1988
- Transponder code
- A0D6FF (octal 50153377)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 9, 2020
- Expires
- April 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 20, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Exhibition · June 13, 2020
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 01316000
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Stinis Curtiss T Trustee
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 10749 Spur Point Ct
San Diego, CA 92130-4839 - Co-owners
- Stinis Sharon U Trustee
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 1
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N153TB, 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 Stinis Curtiss T Trustee, a co-owned, certificate issued April 9, 2020, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 13, 2020, 32 years after the 1988 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 153 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N153TB was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Costruzioni Aeronautiche Tecna P2004 BRAVO (serial 081, cancelled August 29, 2014). 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]
1 NTSB record under N153TB: Accident on November 11, 2012 at Carlsbad, CA: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Costruzioni Aeronautiche Tecna P2004 BRAVO · operated under 091
The pilot’s failure to maintain directional control during takeoff, which resulted in a runway excursion and collision with parked aircraft. Contributing to the accident was the pilot's lack of experience in the airplane make/model.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR13CA039 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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 August 27, 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