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N209JV

Messerschmitt-Bolkow-Blohm BO 209 MONSUN

Valid Minnesota

N209JV is a Messerschmitt-Bolkow-Blohm BO 209 MONSUN, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1971. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 24, 2023 and expires on August 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated September 17, 1971.

Aircraft

Maker
Messerschmitt-Bolkow-Blohm
Model
BO 209 MONSUN · all BO 209 MONSUNs and related versions
Serial number
148
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
Seats
1
Year built
1971
Cruising speed
101 mph
Transponder code
A1B44E (octal 50332116)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
August 24, 2023
Expires
August 31, 2030
Last FAA action
August 24, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal; Utility · September 17, 1971
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
00611252

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Plahn Paul H
Type
Individual
Address
20 2Nd St NE Unit 1401
Minneapolis, MN 55413-2381

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N209JV, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Plahn Paul H, an individual, certificate issued August 24, 2023, expires August 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal; utility, dated September 17, 1971, consistent with the 1971 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 148 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N209JV according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N209JV. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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