Pekola James W RIDGE RUNNER III
N39ZT is a Pekola James W RIDGE RUNNER III, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2004. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Marble, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 13, 2008 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated November 2, 2004.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Pekola James W
- Model
- RIDGE RUNNER III
- Serial number
- 02030388
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2004
- Kit
- ROCKY MOUNTAIN WINGS LLC RIDGE RUNNER 3
- Transponder code
- A482C1 (octal 51101301)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 13, 2008
- Expires
- April 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 5, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · November 2, 2004
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00104959
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sarvis Thomas Wesley
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 286
Marble, NC 28905-0286
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No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N39ZT, 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 Sarvis Thomas Wesley, an individual, certificate issued August 13, 2008, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated November 2, 2004, consistent with the 2004 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 02030388 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N39ZT according to the deregistered file. [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 N39ZT: Accident on July 10, 2014 at Andrews, NC: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Pekola James W RIDGE RUNNER III · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to open the fuel tank valves during the preflight examination of the airplane, which resulted in a total loss of engine power due to fuel starvation.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA14CA349 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