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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 26, 2026Viking Flying Boat Co KITTY HAWK B-8
N975M is a Viking Flying Boat Co KITTY HAWK B-8, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1931. It has 3 seats. It is registered to an individual in New Market, Virginia. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 9, 2012 and expires on February 29, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated April 3, 1959.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Viking Flying Boat Co
- Model
- KITTY HAWK B-8
- Serial number
- 28
- 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 R5 SERIES · 160 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1931
- Transponder code
- AD974B (octal 53313513)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- February 9, 2012
- Expires
- February 29, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 21, 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 · April 3, 1959
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00683950
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Coolbaugh Robert J
- 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
- 55 River Rd
New Market, VA 22844-2080
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N975M links to the rest of the register
- Viking Flying Boat Co 4 aircraft on the register
- Kinner R5 series 157 aircraft with this engine series · 160 hp
- New Market, VA 16 aircraft registered in this town
- New Market Airport · 8W2
- Virginia 5,974 aircraft registered
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The public federal record on N975M, 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 Coolbaugh Robert J, an individual, certificate issued February 9, 2012, expires February 29, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 3, 1959, 28 years after the 1931 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 28 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N975M 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 N975M. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]
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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 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 26, 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 26, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data