Boeing PT-13B
N3980H is a Boeing PT-13B, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1940. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Reston, Virginia. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 12, 2022 and expires on February 28, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for acrobatic, dated October 31, 2007.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Boeing
- Model
- PT-13B · all PT-13Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 75167
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor W670 SERIES · 250 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1940
- Cruising speed
- 93 mph
- Transponder code
- A4A2E1 (octal 51121341)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 12, 2022
- Expires
- February 28, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Acrobatic · October 31, 2007
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00720784
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Jeans James W
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 11968 Grey Squirrel Ln
Reston, VA 20194-1726
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 N3980H, 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 Jeans James W, an individual, certificate issued February 12, 2022, expires February 28, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated October 31, 2007, 67 years after the 1940 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 75167 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N3980H was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Ercoupe 415-CD (serial 4681, cancelled March 5, 1956). 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 N3980H. 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 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
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