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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 30, 2026Bucker-Jungmann E3B
N71BJ is a Bucker-Jungmann E3B, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1961. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Widewings LLC, an LLC in Alexandria, Virginia. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 14, 2021 and expires on May 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated July 19, 2000.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Bucker-Jungmann
- Model
- E3B · all E3Bs 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 Bücker Jungmann biplane: steel-tube fuselage, wooden wings, fabric. This is how the Bucker Jungmann E3 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
- E3B-579
- 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 0-360-A1D · 180 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1961
- Cruising speed
- 111 mph
- Transponder code
- A979D6 (octal 52274726)
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 14, 2021
- Expires
- May 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 12, 2023
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · ExhibitionFAA certificate purpose code 3 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · July 19, 2000
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00862082
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Widewings 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
- 207 N Royal St
Alexandria, VA 22314-2626
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N71BJ links to the rest of the register
- Bucker Jungmann E3 8 registered
- Bucker-Jungmann 10 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 O-360-A1D 1,057 aircraft with this engine series · 180 hp
- Widewings LLC 5 aircraft in the fleet
- Alexandria, VA 749 aircraft registered in this town
- Virginia 5,972 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming O-360-A1D 25 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming O-360-A1D 82 reports since 1995
- Report filed on this aircraft: Engine, failed · 1995-05-28
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The public federal record on N71BJ, 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 Widewings LLC, an LLC, certificate issued May 14, 2021, expires May 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated July 19, 2000, 39 years after the 1961 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 E3B-579 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N71BJ 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 N71BJ. 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 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