Consolidated Vultee/Hops L-13A
N68845 is a Consolidated Vultee/Hops L-13A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Puyallup, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 22, 2023 and expires on May 31, 2030. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for aerial surveying; patrolling; forest, dated February 13, 1957.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Consolidated Vultee/Hops
- Model
- L-13A · all L-13As and related versions
- Serial number
- 47-323
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Franklin 6V6 SERIES · 245 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 69 mph
- Transponder code
- A923F1 (octal 52221761)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 22, 2023
- Expires
- May 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- May 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Aerial surveying; Patrolling; Forest · February 13, 1957
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00950177
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Schell John J
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 13103 127Th Street Ct E
Puyallup, WA 98374-3652
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N68845, 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 Schell John J, an individual, certificate issued May 22, 2023, expires May 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Restricted certificate for aerial surveying; patrolling; forest; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 47-323 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N68845 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N68845. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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
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, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data