Losey/Ratliff/Young J6 KARATOO
N89BD is a Losey/Ratliff/Young J6 KARATOO, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1989. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Eastsound, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 4, 2017 and expires on January 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated August 25, 1989.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Losey/Ratliff/Young
- Model
- J6 KARATOO
- Serial number
- 1210
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor A&C65 SERIES · 65 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1989
- Transponder code
- AC4318 (octal 53041430)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 4, 2017
- Expires
- January 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · August 25, 1989
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00784571
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Marquardt Joel
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 322 Gafford Ln
Eastsound, WA 98245-9447
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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 N89BD, 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 Marquardt Joel, an individual, certificate issued January 4, 2017, expires January 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated August 25, 1989, consistent with the 1989 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1210 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N89BD 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 N89BD: Accident on July 23, 1990 at Grain Valley, MO: serious injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: George R. Losey J6-KARATOO · operated under 091
THE PROPELLER BLADE SEPARATION DURING INITIAL CLIMB, AND THE FAILURE OF THE PILOT IN COMMAND TO MAINTAIN FLYING SPEED DURING THE EMERGENCY DESCENT.
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- 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 September 30, 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