Burt SPECIAL MODEL A
N161RB is a Burt SPECIAL MODEL A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1961. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Oak Point, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 28, 2022 and expires on December 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated March 28, 2018.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Burt
- Model
- SPECIAL MODEL A
- Serial number
- RB2
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-290 SERIES · 140 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1961
- Cruising speed
- 85 mph
- Transponder code
- A0F6DE (octal 50173336)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 28, 2022
- Expires
- December 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · March 28, 2018
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00743344
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Jones Anthony M
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 105 Ravinia Ct
Oak Point, TX 75068-6152
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 N161RB, 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 Jones Anthony M, an individual, certificate issued December 28, 2022, expires December 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated March 28, 2018, 57 years after the 1961 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 RB2 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N161RB was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-31-350 (serial 31-7952097, cancelled December 30, 2002). 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 N161RB: Accident on September 24, 2001 at Pagosa Springs, CO: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal). 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: Piper PA-31-350 · operated under 135
the flight crews' intentional low altitude flight, and failure to maintain obstacle clearance.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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 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