Lenhardt Jack BLERIOT XI
N97BL is a Lenhardt Jack BLERIOT XI, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2006. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Western Antique Aeroplane & Automobile Museum, a corporation in Hood River, Oregon. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 14, 2023 and expires on February 28, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated August 14, 2006.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Lenhardt Jack
- Model
- BLERIOT XI
- Serial number
- JL01
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2006
- Transponder code
- AD8170 (octal 53300560)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 14, 2023
- Expires
- February 28, 2030
- Last FAA action
- February 14, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Exhibition · August 14, 2006
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00259249
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Western Antique Aeroplane & Automobile Museum
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 1600 Air Museum Rd
Hood River, OR 97031-9800
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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 N97BL, 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 Western Antique Aeroplane & Automobile Museum, a corporation, certificate issued February 14, 2023, expires February 28, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for exhibition, dated August 14, 2006, consistent with the 2006 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial JL01 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N97BL 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 N97BL: Accident on November 2, 1993 at Bartow, FL: substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Bell 206-BIII · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for MIA94T#A01 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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 August 27, 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