Bennett A Ludtke SONEX
N30BL is a Bennett A Ludtke SONEX, 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 Saint Peters, Missouri. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 20, 2021 and expires on July 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated October 4, 2012.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bennett A Ludtke
- Model
- SONEX
- Serial number
- 1412
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Aerovee 2180 · 80 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2012
- Kit
- SONEX AIRCRAFT LLC SONEX
- Transponder code
- A31D1D (octal 50616435)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 20, 2021
- Expires
- July 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 26, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · October 4, 2012
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 01090283
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- O'Mara Michael P
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 26 Spencers Crossing
Saint Peters, MO 63376-2618
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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 2
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The public federal record on N30BL, 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 O'Mara Michael P, an individual, certificate issued July 20, 2021, expires July 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated October 4, 2012, consistent with the 2012 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1412 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N30BL was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cirrus Design Corp SR22 (serial 0238, cancelled June 11, 2008); Pitts S-1S (serial L2, cancelled February 17, 1990). 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 N30BL: Accident on September 14, 1985 at Paducah, KY: fatal, destroyed (1 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: Laux Pitts S-1S · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ATL85FA276 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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 August 27, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data