Consolidated Vultee BT-13A
N63884 is a Consolidated Vultee BT-13A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1941. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Marceline, Missouri. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 19, 2017 and expires on April 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated August 10, 1959.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Consolidated Vultee
- Model
- BT-13A · all BT-13As and related versions
- Serial number
- 1833
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · P&W R-985 SERIES · 450 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1941
- Cruising speed
- 108 mph
- Transponder code
- A85F01 (octal 52057401)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 19, 2017
- Expires
- April 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · August 10, 1959
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00502136
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Williams Jay J
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 28898 Highway D
Marceline, MO 64658-7500
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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 N63884, 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 Williams Jay J, an individual, certificate issued April 19, 2017, expires April 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 10, 1959, 18 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 1833 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N63884 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 N63884: Accident on August 27, 1989 at Kansas City, MO: 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-13A · operated under 091
INADEQUATE CONTROL TOWER SERVICE PROVIDED BY TOWER PERSONNEL, AND INADEQUATE REMEDIAL ACTION BY THE VEHICLE DRIVER. THE PILOT'S LACK OF VISUAL LOOKOUT WAS CONSIDERED TO BE A CONTRIBUTING FACTOR.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for MKC89LA189 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