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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 29, 2026Raucci Charles Jr FIREBOLT
N163BD is a Raucci Charles Jr FIREBOLT, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1991. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Planenutts LLC, an LLC in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 16, 2022 and expires on December 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated March 29, 1993.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Raucci Charles Jr
- Model
- FIREBOLT
- Serial number
- 1
- 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 · Lycoming I0360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1991
- Transponder code
- A0FCF0 (octal 50176360)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- December 16, 2022
- Expires
- December 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- May 23, 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 · March 29, 1993
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00544841
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Planenutts 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
- 8585 S 67Th West Ave
Tulsa, OK 74131-4048
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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 N163BD links to the rest of the register
- Raucci Charles Jr 1 aircraft on the register
- Lycoming IO-360 series 8,559 aircraft with this engine series · 180 hp
- Planenutts LLC 5 aircraft in the fleet
- Tulsa, OK 546 aircraft registered in this town
- Tulsa International · TUL
- Tulsa Riverside Airport · RVS
- Oklahoma 5,644 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming IO-360 series 42 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming IO-360 series 39 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N163BD, 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 Planenutts LLC, an LLC, certificate issued December 16, 2022, expires December 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated March 29, 1993, consistent with the 1991 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N163BD was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Toews BD 4 (serial 163, cancelled date not given). 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 N163BD. 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 29, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 29, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 29, 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 29, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data