{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"2025-07-14","airworthiness_ops":"Amateur built","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2025-07-03","city":"KALISPELL","country_code":"US","county_code":"029","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"41629","engine_horsepower":315,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"IO-580-B1A","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2032-07-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2025-07-03","maker":"Paul L Hooker","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"PAUL L HOOKER","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"056428D","mode_s_code":"51466406","mode_s_hex":"A66D06","model":"BEARHAWK FIVE","n_number":"N513EP","name":"BTR VENTURES LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"E. HUNTINGDON","damage":"DEST","date":"1997-04-30","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"NYC97LA083","probable_cause":"was the pilot's entry into an uncontrolled stall/spin and his inadequate recovery from the maneuver which resulted in collision with terrain.  Factors in the accident were the low entry altitude for the maneuver and the pilot's lack of recent flight experience.","registration":"N513EP","state":"PA","summary":"Accident on April 30, 1997 at E. Huntingdon, PA: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal).","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N513EP is a Paul L Hooker BEARHAWK FIVE, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2025. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Btr Ventures LLC, an LLC in Kalispell, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 3, 2025 and expires on July 31, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated July 14, 2025.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Btr Ventures LLC, an LLC, certificate issued July 3, 2025, expires July 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated July 14, 2025, consistent with the 2025 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial M557-112/113 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N513EP was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Porter Emmor K STOLP SA-750 (serial 325, cancelled October 31, 1998). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"1 NTSB record under N513EP: Accident on April 30, 1997 at E. Huntingdon, PA: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). Details below.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Title chain, liens and 337 forms","source":null,"status":"PENDING"},{"finding":"AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.","item":"Airworthiness directives and utilization","source":null,"status":"PENDING"}],"records_check_sources":[{"n":1,"name":"FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":2,"name":"FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download)","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":3,"name":"FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":4,"name":"NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL)","url":"https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search"}],"region":"Northwest Mountain","region_code":"S","registrant_type":"LLC","registrant_type_code":"7","seats":6,"serial_number":"M557-112/113","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"MT","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"1001 S MAIN ST STE 49","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"01498590","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N513EP","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":2025,"zip":"599015635"}