Porter James Grant SUPERIOR CUB
N97RP is a Porter James Grant SUPERIOR CUB, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1998. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Girdwood, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 13, 2021 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated September 4, 1998.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Porter James Grant
- Model
- SUPERIOR CUB
- Serial number
- PR-18-1
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1998
- Transponder code
- AD82D1 (octal 53301321)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 13, 2021
- Expires
- January 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 14, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · September 4, 1998
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00466201
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Combs Jonathan R
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 41
Girdwood, AK 99587-0041
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No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N97RP, 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 Combs Jonathan R, an individual, certificate issued January 13, 2021, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated September 4, 1998, consistent with the 1998 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial PR-18-1 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N97RP 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]
2 NTSB records under N97RP: Accident on October 27, 2012 at Beechgrove, IN: serious injuries, substantial damage. Accident on July 31, 2010 at Caldwell, ID: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Porter James Grant SUPERIOR CUB · operated under 091
The pilot’s failure to maintain clearance from trees during takeoff from a short field.
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Aircraft on the NTSB record: Porter James Grant SUPERIOR CUB · operated under 091
The pilot’s failure to maintain directional control during landing.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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