Cook Gary L SONEX
N1222C is a Cook Gary L SONEX, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2016. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Vallejo, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 1, 2021 and expires on July 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated April 16, 2016.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cook Gary L
- Model
- SONEX
- Serial number
- 1662
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Jabiru 3300 · 120 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2016
- Kit
- SONEX AIRCRAFT LLC SONEX
- Transponder code
- A05DC1 (octal 50056701)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 1, 2021
- Expires
- July 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 26, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · April 16, 2016
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 01204665
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Militante Michael J
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 9311 Big Ben Ct
Vallejo, CA 94591-8599
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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 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N1222C, 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 Militante Michael J, an individual, certificate issued July 1, 2021, expires July 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated April 16, 2016, consistent with the 2016 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1662 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N1222C was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-22-135 (serial 22-1035, cancelled April 28, 1999). 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 N1222C: Accident on April 27, 2020 at Upland, 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: Cook SONEX · operated under 091
A gradual loss of engine power during takeoff due to the pressure regulator not keeping continuous fuel pressure which led to a precautionary off airport landing and collision with terrain.
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