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Yakovlev YAK-9U-M
N1157H is a Yakovlev YAK-9U-M, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboshaft engines. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Yakkin 2 INC, a corporation in Lewes, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 25, 2018 and expires on October 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition; racing, dated September 8, 2003.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Yakovlev
- Model
- YAK-9U-M · all YAK-9U-Ms and related versions
- Serial number
- 0470402
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- TurboshaftFAA type of engine code 3 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Allison V1710 SERIES · 1500 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A0421B (octal 50041033)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- October 25, 2018
- Expires
- October 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 16, 2023
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Exhibition; RacingFAA certificate purpose code 34 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · September 8, 2003
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00126131
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Yakkin 2 INC
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 16192 Coastal Hwy
Lewes, DE 19958-3608
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 2
Connections how N1157H links to the rest of the register
- Yakovlev YAK-9 6 registered
- Yakovlev 230 aircraft on the register
- Allison (Rolls-Royce) V1710 series 70 aircraft with this engine series · 1500 hp
- Yakkin 2 INC 2 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Lewes, DE 898 aircraft registered in this town
- Delaware 10,965 aircraft registered
- Failure reports on the Allison (Rolls-Royce) V1710 series 5 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N1157H, 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 Yakkin 2 INC, a corporation, certificate issued October 25, 2018, expires October 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for exhibition; racing; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 0470402 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N1157H was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Piper PA-28-140 (serial 287725133, cancelled August 10, 1990); Aeronca 15AC (serial 15AC-170, cancelled March 7, 1957). 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 N1157H: Accident on August 6, 1989 at Troy, MI: no injuries, destroyed. 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: Piper PA-28-140 · operated under 091
THE PILOT-IN-COMMAND FAILED TO PROPERLY COMPENSATE FOR UNFAVORABLE WIND CONDITIONS.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data