Gaskins Abe B SAFARI 400
N104CV is a Gaskins Abe B SAFARI 400, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2016. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Gallatin, Tennessee. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 19, 2016 and expires on February 28, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated April 26, 2016.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Gaskins Abe B
- Model
- SAFARI 400
- Serial number
- CH1503
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Superior XP-O-360A3HY3 · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2016
- Kit
- CHR INTERNATIONAL INC SAFARI 400
- Transponder code
- A013D6 (octal 50011726)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 19, 2016
- Expires
- February 28, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · April 26, 2016
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 01209143
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Gaskins Abe B
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 104 Courtney Cv
Gallatin, TN 37066-5649
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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 N104CV, 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 Gaskins Abe B, an individual, certificate issued February 19, 2016, expires February 28, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated April 26, 2016, consistent with the 2016 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial CH1503 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N104CV 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 N104CV: Accident on April 10, 2019 at Gallatin, TN: minor 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: Gaskins SAFARI 400 · operated under 091
The pilot/owner's improper decision to make a right turn instead of terminating the approach to a hover and his subsequent loss of helicopter control while attempting to land on sloping terrain, which resulted in a roll-over.
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