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Consolidated Vultee BT-13B (SNV-2)
N63697 is a Consolidated Vultee BT-13B (SNV-2), a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1942. It has 2 seats. It is registered to War Eagles Air Museum, a corporation in Santa Teresa, New Mexico. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 11, 2007 and expires on August 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated February 15, 1973.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Consolidated Vultee
- Model
- BT-13B (SNV-2) · all BT-13B (SNV-2)s 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. This is how the Consolidated Vultee BT-13 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
- 79-1293
- 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 · P&W R-985 SERIES · 450 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1942
- Cruising speed
- 108 mph
- Transponder code
- A857B9 (octal 52053671)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- June 11, 2007
- Expires
- August 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · February 15, 1973
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00562076
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- War Eagles Air Museum
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 8012 Airport Rd
Santa Teresa, NM 88008-9719
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N63697 links to the rest of the register
- Consolidated Vultee BT-13 74 registered
- Consolidated Vultee 115 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Pratt & Whitney R-985 series 1,593 aircraft with this engine series · 450 hp
- War Eagles Air Museum 25 aircraft in the fleet
- Santa Teresa, NM 75 aircraft registered in this town
- Dona Ana County International Jetport · DNA
- New Mexico 3,109 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Consolidated Vultee BT-13 5 airworthiness directives
- Approved modifications for the Consolidated Vultee BT-13 4 supplemental type certificates
- Failure reports on the Pratt & Whitney R-985 series 80 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N63697, 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 War Eagles Air Museum, a corporation, certificate issued June 11, 2007, expires August 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated February 15, 1973, 31 years after the 1942 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 79-1293 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N63697 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 N63697: Accident on July 28, 1984 at Hobbs, NM: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Consolidated-Vultee BT-13B · operated under 091
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 3, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data