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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 30, 2026Boeing B75N1
N68972 is a Boeing B75N1, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Biplane Engineering LLC, an LLC in Oakland, New Jersey. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 24, 2023 and expires on May 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for acrobatic, dated November 17, 1961.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Boeing
- Model
- B75N1 · all B75N1s 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 B75 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
- 75-5066
- 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
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 93 mph
- Transponder code
- A9280E (octal 52224016)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- May 24, 2023
- Expires
- May 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- May 24, 2023
- 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 · AcrobaticFAA certificate purpose code A (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · November 17, 1961
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00180227
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Biplane Engineering 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
- 37 Edison Ave
Oakland, NJ 07436-1301
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N68972 links to the rest of the register
- Boeing B75 Stearman Kaydet 257 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
- Biplane Engineering LLC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Oakland, NJ 5 aircraft registered in this town
- New Jersey 3,017 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Boeing B75 Stearman Kaydet 6 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Boeing B75 Stearman Kaydet 2 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Boeing B75 Stearman Kaydet 46 supplemental type certificates
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The public federal record on N68972, 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 Biplane Engineering LLC, an LLC, certificate issued May 24, 2023, expires May 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for acrobatic; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 75-5066 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N68972 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 N68972: Accident on October 28, 1989 at Willimantic, ME: minor injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Boeing B75N · operated under 091
AN INADVERTENT STALL CLEARING TREES DURING A FORCED LANDING FOLLOWING A POWER LOSS DUE TO A FUEL LINE SEPARATING FROM THE CARBURETOR AND FUEL STARVATION.
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 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, October 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data