Bucker-Jungman 131
N41455 is a Bucker-Jungman 131, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Polk City, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 18, 1997 and expires on August 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated December 22, 1997.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bucker-Jungman
- Model
- 131 · all 131s and related versions
- Serial number
- 78
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Hirth HM 504 · 100 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 112 mph
- Transponder code
- A4E621 (octal 51163041)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 18, 1997
- Expires
- August 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Exhibition · December 22, 1997
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00630760
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Weeks Kermit
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1400 Broadway Blvd SE
Polk City, FL 33868-9109
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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
Records check free · 2 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N41455, 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 Weeks Kermit, an individual, certificate issued June 18, 1997, expires August 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for exhibition; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 78 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N41455 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Piper PA-28-151 (serial 287415219, cancelled May 23, 1991); Douglas DC3C-S1C3G (serial 11876, cancelled December 19, 1955). 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 N41455: Accident on July 24, 1990 at Apple Valley, CA: fatal, destroyed (2 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: Piper PA-28-151 · operated under 091
IMPROPER PREFLIGHT PLANNING/DECISION BY THE PILOT. FACTORS RELATED TO THE ACCIDENT WERE: FAILUE OF THE PILOT TO CONFIGURE THE AIRCRAFT'S FLAPS FOR A SOFT FIELD TAKEOFF, HIS IMPROPER USE OF STABILATOR TRIM, HIGH DENSITY ALTITUDE, SOFT RUNWAY, AND TREES NEAR THE DEPARTURE END OF THE RUNWAY.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX90FA265 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