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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 30, 2026Quicksilver GT-400
N120LF is a Quicksilver GT-400, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a two-stroke engine, built in 1984. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Spring Valley, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 20, 2025 and expires on February 29, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated March 3, 2007.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Quicksilver
- Model
- GT-400 · all GT-400s and related versions
- Built of
- aluminium tube and fabricAn ultralight-style airframe: bolted aluminium tubing under sailcloth or fabric, the construction of weight-shift trikes and the lightest two-seaters. An ultralight-style airframe: bolted aluminium tubing under sailcloth. This is how the Quicksilver GT-400 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 1042
- 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
- Two-cycle pistonFAA type of engine code 7 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Rotax 503 DCDI · 52 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1984
- Transponder code
- A054B2 (octal 50052262)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- February 20, 2025
- Expires
- February 29, 2032
- Last FAA action
- February 20, 2025
- 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 · Registered before Jan 31, 2008FAA certificate purpose code 8A (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · March 3, 2007
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00319179
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Frehafer Glenn A
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 2877 Helix St
Spring Valley, CA 91977-3332
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N120LF links to the rest of the register
- Quicksilver GT-400 21 registered
- Quicksilver 138 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium tube and fabric · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Rotax 503 DCDI 561 aircraft with this engine series · 52 hp
- Spring Valley, CA 19 aircraft registered in this town
- California 27,686 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N120LF.json.
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The public federal record on N120LF, 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 Frehafer Glenn A, an individual, certificate issued February 20, 2025, expires February 29, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated March 3, 2007, 23 years after the 1984 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 1042 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N120LF 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 N120LF: Accident on March 23, 2026 at Chula Vista, CA: 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: Quicksilver GT-400 · operated under 091
The pilot’s improper landing flare, which resulted in a bounced landing and a subsequent runway excursion.
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