Convair BT-13A
N61BT is a Convair BT-13A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1941. It has 2 seats. It is registered to American Airpower Heritage Flying Mu, a corporation in Dallas, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 6, 1991 and expires on July 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated August 22, 1954.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Convair
- Model
- BT-13A · all BT-13As and related versions
- Serial number
- 1268
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · P&W R-985 SERIES · 450 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1941
- Cruising speed
- 127 mph
- Transponder code
- A7EC90 (octal 51766220)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 6, 1991
- Expires
- July 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 26, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · August 22, 1954
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00193146
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- American Airpower Heritage Flying Mu
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 764769
Dallas, TX 75376-4769
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 · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N61BT, 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 American Airpower Heritage Flying Mu, a corporation, certificate issued September 6, 1991, expires July 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 22, 1954, 13 years after the 1941 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 1268 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N61BT was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Aero Commander 560-F (serial 1405-66, cancelled April 15, 2011). 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 N61BT: Accident on September 24, 1987 at Opa Locka, FL: 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: Aero Commander 560-F · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for MIA87LA258 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