John Balkema JOHN DOE
N29JB is a John Balkema JOHN DOE, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2012. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Kalamazoo, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 6, 2012 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated June 15, 2012.
Aircraft
- Maker
- John Balkema
- Model
- JOHN DOE
- Serial number
- 007
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor IO-240-B · 125 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2012
- Transponder code
- A2F3EB (octal 50571753)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 6, 2012
- Expires
- April 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 5, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · June 15, 2012
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 01090413
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Balkema John
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 5300 Miller Rd
Kalamazoo, MI 49048
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 · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N29JB, 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 Balkema John, an individual, certificate issued April 6, 2012, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated June 15, 2012, consistent with the 2012 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 007 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N29JB was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: I.C.A.-Brasov (Romania) IS-28B2 (serial 84, cancelled February 21, 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 N29JB: Accident on August 15, 2001 at Wenatchee, WA: minor 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: I.C.A. Brasov IS-28B2 · operated under 091
Failure to maintain clearance from terrain during a low altitude turn. The second pilot overshooting the runway was a contributing factor to the accident.
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