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Boeing A75N1(PT17)
N68820 is a Boeing A75N1(PT17), a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1944. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Putz Aeroplanes LLC, an LLC in Bryan, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 15, 2025 and expires on September 30, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated November 28, 2001.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Boeing
- Model
- A75N1(PT17) · all A75N1(PT17)s and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube, wood and fabricA welded steel-tube fuselage and wooden wings, all covered in fabric: the construction of the 1930s and 1940s, which makes wood rot and fabric age the inspection items. The Stearman: welded steel-tube fuselage, wooden wings, fabric over all of it. This is how the Boeing A75 Stearman Kaydet 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
- 75-5350
- 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 · Lycoming R680 · 215 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1944
- Cruising speed
- 93 mph
- Transponder code
- A923A6 (octal 52221646)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- September 15, 2025
- Expires
- September 30, 2032
- Last FAA action
- September 15, 2025
- 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 · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · November 28, 2001
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00750177
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Putz Aeroplanes LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 3306 Durant Ct
Bryan, TX 77802-6100
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N68820 links to the rest of the register
- Boeing A75 Stearman Kaydet 978 registered
- Boeing 6,678 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube, wood and fabric · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming R680 219 aircraft with this engine series · 215 hp
- Putz Aeroplanes LLC 2 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Bryan, TX 86 aircraft registered in this town
- Coulter Field · CFD
- Texas 29,958 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Boeing A75 Stearman Kaydet 6 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Boeing A75 Stearman Kaydet 18 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Boeing A75 Stearman Kaydet 104 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming R680 5 airworthiness directives
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The public federal record on N68820, 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 Putz Aeroplanes LLC, an LLC, certificate issued September 15, 2025, expires September 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated November 28, 2001, 57 years after the 1944 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 75-5350 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N68820 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]
2 NTSB records under N68820: Accident on January 9, 2003 at Jean, NV: minor injuries, substantial damage. Accident on May 8, 1982 at Pleasant Grove, CA: fatal, 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.
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NTSB records 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Boeing Stearman PT-17 · operated under 091
The pilot of the other airplane's use of an improper starting procedure and his failure to obtain appropriate assistance.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Boeing A75N1 · operated under 137
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 5, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data