Burton Dennis W SONEX
N683DB is a Burton Dennis W SONEX, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Martinsville, Indiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 19, 2024 and expires on February 28, 2031. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated March 13, 2007.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Burton Dennis W
- Model
- SONEX
- Serial number
- 0691
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Jabiru 3300 · 120 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Kit
- SONEX LTD SONEX
- Transponder code
- A90EA9 (octal 52207251)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 19, 2024
- Expires
- February 28, 2031
- Last FAA action
- February 19, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · March 13, 2007
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00233059
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Smith Matthew
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 8316 N Twisted Oak Dr
Martinsville, IN 46151-5921
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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 N683DB, 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 Smith Matthew, an individual, certificate issued February 19, 2024, expires February 28, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 0691 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N683DB 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 N683DB: Accident on August 16, 2015 at Wolcottville, IN: minor injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Burton Dennis W SONEX · operated under 091
The pilot's improper fuel planning, which resulted in fuel exhaustion, a forced off-airport landing, and nose over.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for GAA15CA234 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