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.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Consolidated Vultee
- Model
- BT-13B (SNV-2) · all BT-13B (SNV-2)s and related versions
- Serial number
- 79-1293
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · P&W R-985 SERIES · 450 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1942
- Cruising speed
- 108 mph
- Transponder code
- A857B9 (octal 52053671)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 11, 2007
- Expires
- August 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · February 15, 1973
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00562076
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- War Eagles Air Museum
- Type
- Corporation
- 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.
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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]
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: Consolidated-Vultee BT-13B · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DEN84LA245 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
