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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 10, 2026Perth Amboy BIRD BK
N847W is a Perth Amboy BIRD BK, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1930. It has 3 seats. It is registered to an individual in Independence, Oregon. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 28, 2001 and expires on March 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated October 3, 1955.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Perth Amboy
- Model
- BIRD BK · all BIRD BKs 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. A biplane of the 1920s and 1930s: steel-tube fuselage, wooden wings, fabric covering. This is how the Perth Amboy BIRD BK 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
- 2049-29
- 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 · Kinner K5 SERIES · 100 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1930
- Cruising speed
- 84 mph
- Transponder code
- AB9BCE (octal 52715716)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- March 28, 2001
- Expires
- March 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 13, 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 · October 3, 1955
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00862931
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Reid Robert W
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 673 Cessna St
Independence, OR 97351-9603
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N847W links to the rest of the register
- Perth Amboy BIRD BK 7 registered
- Perth Amboy 13 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
- Kinner K5 series 52 aircraft with this engine series · 100 hp
- Independence, OR 215 aircraft registered in this town
- Independence State Airport · 7S5
- Oregon 7,004 aircraft registered
- Approved modifications for the Perth Amboy BIRD BK 8 supplemental type certificates
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The public federal record on N847W, 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 Reid Robert W, an individual, certificate issued March 28, 2001, expires March 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated October 3, 1955, 25 years after the 1930 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 2049-29 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N847W 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 N847W: Accident on May 30, 1994 at San Jose, CA: minor injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Perth Amboy BIRD BK · operated under 091
the separation of the right main landing gear axle from the gear strut for undetermined reasons related to component age.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 10, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data