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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026Lenhardt 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.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Lenhardt Jack
- Model
- BLERIOT XI
- Serial number
- JL01
- 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
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2006
- Transponder code
- AD8170 (octal 53300560)
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 14, 2023
- Expires
- February 28, 2030
- Last FAA action
- February 14, 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 · August 14, 2006
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00259249
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Western Antique Aeroplane & Automobile Museum
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- 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.
Connections how N97BL links to the rest of the register
- Lenhardt Jack 1 aircraft on the register
- Western Antique Aeroplane & Automobile Museum 148 aircraft in the fleet
- Hood River, OR 337 aircraft registered in this town
- Ken Jernstedt Airfield · 4S2
- Oregon 7,020 aircraft registered
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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
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- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data