Thrift-Dale SKYBOLT-1
N101DT is a Thrift-Dale SKYBOLT-1, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1980. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Cristal Air INC, a corporation in Wilmington, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 23, 2023 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated March 26, 2015.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Thrift-Dale
- Model
- SKYBOLT-1
- Serial number
- 1
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming HIO-360-C1A · 205 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1980
- Transponder code
- A008C8 (octal 50004310)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 23, 2023
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- January 28, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · March 26, 2015
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00490130
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Cristal Air INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 108 W 13Th St
Wilmington, DE 19801-1145
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N101DT, 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 Cristal Air INC, a corporation, certificate issued January 23, 2023, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated March 26, 2015, 35 years after the 1980 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 1 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N101DT 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]
1 NTSB record under N101DT: Accident on March 29, 1998 at Sanford, FL: no injuries, substantial damage. 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: Steen SKYBOLT · operated under 091
The failure of the pilot of N101DT to maintain a visual lookout during the taxi phase of his flight and the failure of the ground controller to issue a traffic advisory to N101DT about the location of N6285M.
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 September 30, 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