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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 30, 2026Armstrong Paul W XENOS-B
N31PD is an Armstrong Paul W XENOS-B, a glider with a piston engine, built in 2023. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Hornbrook, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 12, 2023 and expires on July 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated August 29, 2023.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Armstrong Paul W
- Model
- XENOS-B
- Serial number
- XNB0014
- Type
- GliderFAA type of aircraft code 1 (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 · Aerovee 2180 · 80 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2023
- Kit
- SONEX AIRCRAFT LLC XENOS-B
- Transponder code
- A345C1 (octal 50642701)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- July 12, 2023
- Expires
- July 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- July 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 · August 29, 2023
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01412285
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Armstrong Paul W
- 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
- 6126 Whidgeon Pl
Hornbrook, CA 96044-9695
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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 N31PD links to the rest of the register
- Armstrong Paul W 1 aircraft on the register
- AeroVee 2180 54 aircraft with this engine series · 80 hp
- Hornbrook, CA 2 aircraft registered in this town
- California 27,686 aircraft registered
- Report filed on this aircraft: O-Ring, worn · 2007-03-26
- Report filed on this aircraft: Lever, broken · 2007-02-14
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N31PD.json.
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The public federal record on N31PD, 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 Armstrong Paul W, an individual, certificate issued July 12, 2023, expires July 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated August 29, 2023, consistent with the 2023 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial XNB0014 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N31PD was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-23-250 (serial 27-7654016, cancelled May 8, 2015). 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 N31PD. 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 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 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, October 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data