Yakovlev YAK-50
N613BM is a Yakovlev YAK-50, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1984. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Scotts Valley, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 24, 2003 and expires on July 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated July 3, 2002.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Yakovlev
- Model
- YAK-50 · all YAK-50s and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. Metal structure; fabric-covered control surfaces. This is how the Yakovlev YAK-50 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 842803
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (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
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1984
- Transponder code
- A7FA08 (octal 51775010)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- February 24, 2003
- Expires
- July 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 18, 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 · ExhibitionFAA certificate purpose code 3 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · July 3, 2002
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00605631
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Frost Keith A
- 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
- 1800 Weston Rd
Scotts Valley, CA 95066-2546
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N613BM links to the rest of the register
- Yakovlev YAK-50 37 registered
- Yakovlev 230 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Scotts Valley, CA 33 aircraft registered in this town
- California 27,610 aircraft registered
- Failure reports filed on the Yakovlev YAK-50 2 reports since 1995
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N613BM.json.
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The public federal record on N613BM, 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 Frost Keith A, an individual, certificate issued February 24, 2003, expires July 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated July 3, 2002, 18 years after the 1984 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 842803 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N613BM 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 N613BM: Accident on September 20, 2024 at Watsonville, CA: no injuries, substantial damage. 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: Yakovlev YAK-50 · operated under 091
The Yak-50 pilot’s failure to maintain clearance from another airplane while taxiing and maneuvering. Contributing to the accident was the pilot’s inattention due to a distraction inside the cockpit.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data