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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026Perth Amboy BIRD CK
N980M is a Perth Amboy BIRD CK, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1931. It has 3 seats. It is registered to Nc980M LLC, an LLC in Hampton, New Jersey. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 24, 2024 and expires on June 30, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated October 12, 1956.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Perth Amboy
- Model
- BIRD CK
- Serial number
- CK4035
- 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 B5 SERIES · 125 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1931
- Cruising speed
- 84 mph
- Transponder code
- ADAC37 (octal 53326067)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- June 24, 2024
- Expires
- June 30, 2031
- Last FAA action
- June 24, 2024
- 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 · October 12, 1956
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00853820
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Nc980M LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 110 Driftway e
Hampton, NJ 08827-4147
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N980M links to the rest of the register
- Perth Amboy 13 aircraft on the register
- Kinner B5 series 75 aircraft with this engine series · 125 hp
- Nc980M LLC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Hampton, NJ 8 aircraft registered in this town
- New Jersey 3,020 aircraft registered
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The public federal record on N980M, 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 Nc980M LLC, an LLC, certificate issued June 24, 2024, expires June 30, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated October 12, 1956, 25 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 CK4035 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N980M 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 N980M. 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 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
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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data