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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 30, 2026Vickers Supermarine Ltd SPITFIRE MK XVIII
N969SM is a Vickers Supermarine Ltd SPITFIRE MK XVIII, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboprop engines, built in 1945. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Echo Matrix LLC, an LLC in Bentonville, Arkansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 9, 2020 and expires on April 30, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated November 9, 2015.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Vickers Supermarine Ltd
- Model
- SPITFIRE MK XVIII
- Serial number
- 6S-663052
- 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
- TurbopropFAA type of engine code 2 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Rolls-Royc GRIFFON · 2455 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1945
- Transponder code
- AD7F31 (octal 53277461)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- April 9, 2020
- Expires
- April 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 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 · November 9, 2015
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01017886
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Echo Matrix 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
- PO Box 1860
Bentonville, AR 72712-1860
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No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N969SM links to the rest of the register
- Vickers Supermarine Ltd 5 aircraft on the register
- Rolls-Royce GRIFFON 5 aircraft with this engine series · 2455 hp
- Echo Matrix LLC 19 aircraft in the fleet
- Bentonville, AR 126 aircraft registered in this town
- Bentonville Muni/Louise M Thaden Field · VBT
- Arkansas 3,495 aircraft registered
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The public federal record on N969SM, 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 Echo Matrix LLC, an LLC, certificate issued April 9, 2020, expires April 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated November 9, 2015, 70 years after the 1945 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 6S-663052 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N969SM 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 N969SM. 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