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Boeing PT-13D
N68830 is a Boeing PT-13D, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Gordon Bowman-Jones LLC, an LLC in Helena, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 7, 2021 and expires on June 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated March 8, 1983.
Where is it now Last seen October 15 at 9:00 am.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Boeing
- Model
- PT-13D · all PT-13Ds 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 PT-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
- 755667
- 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 R680-17 · 225 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 93 mph
- Transponder code
- A923C9 (octal 52221711)
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 7, 2021
- Expires
- June 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- July 17, 2026
- 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 · March 8, 1983
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00251908
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Gordon Bowman-Jones 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
- 302 N Last Chance Gulch Ste 409
Helena, MT 59601-5002
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N68830 links to the rest of the register
- Boeing PT-13 32 registered
- Boeing 6,676 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 R680-17 6 aircraft with this engine series · 225 hp
- Gordon Bowman-Jones LLC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Helena, MT 537 aircraft registered in this town
- Helena Regional · HLN
- Montana 6,049 aircraft registered
- Failure reports filed on the Boeing PT-13 2 reports since 1995
- Where N68830 is now · Last seen October 15 at 9:00 am.
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The public federal record on N68830, 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 Gordon Bowman-Jones LLC, an LLC, certificate issued June 7, 2021, expires June 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 755667 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N68830 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 N68830: Accident on December 19, 2025 at El Cajon, CA: 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: Boeing PT-13D · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain directional control during the landing roll.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data