Paul L Hooker BEARHAWK FIVE
N513EP is a Paul L Hooker BEARHAWK FIVE, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2025. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Btr Ventures LLC, an LLC in Kalispell, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 3, 2025 and expires on July 31, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated July 14, 2025.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Paul L Hooker
- Model
- BEARHAWK FIVE
- Serial number
- M557-112/113
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-580-B1A · 315 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 2025
- Transponder code
- A66D06 (octal 51466406)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 3, 2025
- Expires
- July 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- July 3, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · July 14, 2025
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 01498590
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Btr Ventures LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 1001 S Main St Ste 49
Kalispell, MT 59901-5635
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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
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N513EP, 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 Btr Ventures LLC, an LLC, certificate issued July 3, 2025, expires July 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated July 14, 2025, consistent with the 2025 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial M557-112/113 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N513EP was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Porter Emmor K STOLP SA-750 (serial 325, cancelled October 31, 1998). 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 N513EP: Accident on April 30, 1997 at E. Huntingdon, PA: 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: Porter STOLP SA-750 · operated under 091
was the pilot's entry into an uncontrolled stall/spin and his inadequate recovery from the maneuver which resulted in collision with terrain. Factors in the accident were the low entry altitude for the maneuver and the pilot's lack of recent flight experience.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for NYC97LA083 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
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