Yakovlev YAK 52
N111GC is a Yakovlev YAK 52, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Sylacauga, Alabama. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 3, 2017 and expires on November 30, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated May 17, 1996.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Yakovlev
- Model
- YAK 52 · all YAK 52s and related versions
- Serial number
- 877815
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A03083 (octal 50030203)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 3, 2017
- Expires
- November 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- April 1, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Exhibition · May 17, 1996
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00225601
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Simmons Brandon M
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 265 Simmons Mtn Ln
Sylacauga, AL 35150
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
Records check free · 2 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N111GC, 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 Simmons Brandon M, an individual, certificate issued November 3, 2017, expires November 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for exhibition; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 877815 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N111GC was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Crawford-Gordon THORP T-18 (serial 387, cancelled October 23, 1992). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N111GC: Accident on December 16, 1989 at Austin, NV: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). 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: Crawford-Gordon THORP T-18 · operated under 091
AN IMPROPER MAJOR ALTERATION PERFORMED BY THE PILOT. AS A RESULT OF THIS MODIFICATION, THE PROPELLER FAILED IN FLIGHT.
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
This automated check reads the public federal record. Nothing here is a legal opinion, an appraisal or a statement about the aircraft's condition; a CLEAR line is a statement about the searched record, not the aircraft.
Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data