Barry L Tanner THATCHER CX4
N98BT is a Barry L Tanner THATCHER CX4, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Lafayette, Louisiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 28, 2026 and expires on May 31, 2033. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Barry L Tanner
- Model
- THATCHER CX4
- Serial number
- 609
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- ADA8F6 (octal 53324366)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 28, 2026
- Expires
- May 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- May 28, 2026
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 01534931
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Tanner Barry L
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 210 Rue Chavaniac
Lafayette, LA 70508-7314
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N98BT, 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 Tanner Barry L, an individual, certificate issued May 28, 2026, expires May 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 609 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N98BT was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 310R (serial 310R1582, cancelled February 12, 2018). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N98BT: Accident on December 8, 2013 at Jacksonville, FL: fatal, destroyed (3 fatal). Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 310R · operated under 091
The pilot’s failure to maintain airplane control during a missed approach in night instrument meteorological conditions due to spatial disorientation and a lack of instrument proficiency.
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