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N80280

Porter Halbert H BJ-1B

Valid Iowa

N80280 is a Porter Halbert H BJ-1B, a glider with no engine, built in 1981. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Michael Matt, a partnership in Ames, Iowa. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 27, 2018 and expires on October 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated June 22, 1982.

Aircraft

Maker
Porter Halbert H
Model
BJ-1B
Serial number
BJB-11
Type
Glider
Power
None · None NONE
Seats
1
Year built
1981
Transponder code
AAECD4 (octal 52566324)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
October 27, 2018
Expires
October 31, 2028
Last FAA action
June 16, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · June 22, 1982
FAA region
Central
FAA record id
00240642

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Michael Matt
Type
Partnership
Address
58236 280Th St
Ames, IA 50010-9339
Co-owners
O'Neel Cory

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

1970-06-29Culver V · Valid registration

Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, September 25, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data