Irving Steven IRBD-4
N81TR is an Irving Steven IRBD-4, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Bigfork, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 9, 2021 and expires on December 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated December 10, 2010.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Irving Steven
- Model
- IRBD-4
- Serial number
- 009
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO 540 SER · 260 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- AB08BC (octal 52604274)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 9, 2021
- Expires
- December 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- July 1, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · December 10, 2010
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 01060524
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Carter Ted J
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 470 Aero Ln
Bigfork, MT 59911-6560
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 2
Records check free · 2 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N81TR, 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 Carter Ted J, an individual, certificate issued December 9, 2021, expires December 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 009 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N81TR was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Willey Douglas J TEAM ROCKET F-1 (serial 049, cancelled March 9, 2005); Rockwell International 690C (serial 11690, cancelled February 9, 1993). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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]
2 NTSB records under N81TR: Accident on December 23, 1992 at Golden, CO: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). Incident on May 24, 1991 at Denver, CO: no injuries. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Rockwell 690C · operated under 135
THE PILOT FLYING THE AIRCRAFT BEYOND THE DESIGN MANEUVERING SPEED AND EXCEEDING THE DESIGN STRESS LIMITS. A FACTOR WAS: CLEAR AIR TURBULENCE.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DEN93FA017 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Aero Commander 690C · operated under 135
FATIGUE FAILURE OF FLAP CABLE.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DEN91IA076 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
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