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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 6, 2026Paul S Stumpf STUMPF GB-3
N303PS is a Paul S Stumpf STUMPF GB-3, a balloon with no engine, built in 2021. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Andover, Vermont. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 6, 2021 and expires on May 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated June 1, 2021.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Paul S Stumpf
- Model
- STUMPF GB-3
- Serial number
- 2021-54C-1
- Type
- BalloonFAA type of aircraft code 2 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- NoneFAA type of engine code 0 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · None NONE
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2021
- Transponder code
- A32BCD (octal 50625715)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- May 6, 2021
- Expires
- May 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 12, 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 · June 1, 2021
- FAA region
- New EnglandFAA region code E (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01341400
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Stumpf Paul S
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 2926 Weston-Andover Rd
Andover, VT 05143-9182
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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 N303PS links to the rest of the register
- Paul S Stumpf 4 aircraft on the register
- Andover, VT 4 aircraft registered in this town
- Vermont 677 aircraft registered
- Report filed on this aircraft: Bearing, worn · 2003-03-18
- Report filed on this aircraft: Bearing, debonded · 2003-03-18
- Report filed on this aircraft: Bearing, debonded · 2003-03-18
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The public federal record on N303PS, 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 Stumpf Paul S, an individual, certificate issued May 6, 2021, expires May 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated June 1, 2021, consistent with the 2021 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2021-54C-1 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N303PS was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Bell 230 (serial 23016, cancelled January 29, 2009). 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 N303PS. 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 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 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 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data