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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 4, 2026Ranweiler John L HATZ BANTAM
N159HB is a Ranweiler John L HATZ BANTAM, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2021. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Selva Blue LLC, an LLC in El Prado, New Mexico. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 16, 2023 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated May 28, 2021.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Ranweiler John L
- Model
- HATZ BANTAM
- Serial number
- 35
- 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 · Ulpower 350I · 118 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2021
- Transponder code
- A0EC4F (octal 50166117)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- April 16, 2023
- Expires
- April 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- April 16, 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 · May 28, 2021
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01326836
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Selva Blue LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- PO Box 2118
El Prado, NM 87529-2118
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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 N159HB links to the rest of the register
- Ranweiler John L 1 aircraft on the register
- UL Power 350I 29 aircraft with this engine series · 118 hp
- Selva Blue LLC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- El Prado, NM 19 aircraft registered in this town
- New Mexico 3,111 aircraft registered
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The public federal record on N159HB, 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 Selva Blue LLC, an LLC, certificate issued April 16, 2023, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated May 28, 2021, consistent with the 2021 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 35 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N159HB was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Potez-Air FOUGA CM170 MAGISTER (serial 479, cancelled November 12, 2013). 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 N159HB. 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 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 4, 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 4, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data