{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1983-03-08","airworthiness_ops":"Normal","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2021-06-07","city":"HELENA","country_code":"US","county_code":"049","cruise_speed_mph":93,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"42404","engine_horsepower":225,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"R680-17","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2028-06-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2026-07-17","maker":"Boeing","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"BOEING","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"1380122","mode_s_code":"52221711","mode_s_hex":"A923C9","model":"PT-13D","n_number":"N68830","name":"GORDON BOWMAN-JONES LLC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"El Cajon","damage":"SUBS","date":"2025-12-19","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"WPR26LA066","probable_cause":"The pilot's failure to maintain directional control during the landing roll.","registration":"N68830","state":"CA","summary":"Accident on December 19, 2025 at El Cajon, CA: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N68830 is a Boeing PT-13D, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Gordon Bowman-Jones LLC, an LLC in Helena, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 7, 2021 and expires on June 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated March 8, 1983.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Gordon Bowman-Jones LLC, an LLC, certificate issued June 7, 2021, expires June 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Standard certificate for normal; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 755667 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N68830 according to the deregistered file.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"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 N68830: Accident on December 19, 2025 at El Cajon, CA: no injuries, substantial damage. 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":2,"serial_number":"755667","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"MT","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"302 N LAST CHANCE GULCH STE 409","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00251908","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N68830","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":null,"zip":"596015002"}