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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 30, 2026Busenitz Clinton Lee BADLANDS TRAVELER
N970BT is a Busenitz Clinton Lee BADLANDS TRAVELER, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2025. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Oral, South Dakota. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 27, 2025 and expires on October 31, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated December 19, 2025.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Busenitz Clinton Lee
- Model
- BADLANDS TRAVELER · all BADLANDS TRAVELERs and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube and fabricThe fuselage is a welded steel-tube frame covered in fabric, with metal or wooden wing spars under fabric-covered wings; the fabric is replaced every few decades. This is how the Busenitz Clinton Lee BADLANDS TRAVELER 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
- 013
- 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 · Rotax 916 IS · 160 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2025
- Transponder code
- AD83D0 (octal 53301720)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- October 27, 2025
- Expires
- October 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- October 27, 2025
- 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 · Amateur builtFAA certificate purpose code 2 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · December 19, 2025
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01512623
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Busenitz Clinton Lee
- 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
- 27657 W Oral Rd
Oral, SD 57766-7203
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N970BT links to the rest of the register
- Busenitz Clinton Lee BADLANDS TRAVELER 5 registered
- Busenitz Clinton Lee 7 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube and fabric · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Rotax 916 IS 119 aircraft with this engine series · 160 hp
- Oral, SD 2 aircraft registered in this town
- South Dakota 2,273 aircraft registered
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The public federal record on N970BT, 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 Busenitz Clinton Lee, an individual, certificate issued October 27, 2025, expires October 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated December 19, 2025, consistent with the 2025 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 013 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N970BT 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 N970BT. 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 September 30, 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