Loofbourrow John W RUTAN DEFIANT
N770JL is a Loofbourrow John W RUTAN DEFIANT, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 2003. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Bowling Green, Ohio. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 16, 2023 and expires on November 30, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated November 20, 2003.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Loofbourrow John W
- Model
- RUTAN DEFIANT
- Serial number
- 61
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors · Lycoming O-360 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2003
- Transponder code
- AA69DA (octal 52464732)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 16, 2023
- Expires
- November 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- November 16, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · November 20, 2003
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00125920
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Wirt David L
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1320 W Wooster St
Bowling Green, OH 43402-9701
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N770JL, 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 Wirt David L, an individual, certificate issued November 16, 2023, expires November 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated November 20, 2003, consistent with the 2003 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 61 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N770JL 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 N770JL: Accident on November 16, 2016 at Morristown, NJ: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Loofbourrow John W RUTAN DEFIANT · operated under 091
A collapse of the nose landing gear due to wear in the landing gear extension system.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA17LA054 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data