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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 6, 2026Higher Class Aviation HORNET
N134DG is a Higher Class Aviation HORNET, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2005. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Granbury, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 20, 2021 and expires on October 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for operating light-sport previously certificated, dated August 27, 2011.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Higher Class Aviation
- Model
- HORNET
- Serial number
- 0052
- 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
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Rotax SEE BOMBADIER
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas; the engine's maker also approves mogas, UL91, UL94
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2005
- Transponder code
- A08A5F (octal 50105137)
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 20, 2021
- 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 · Operating light-sport previously certificatedFAA certificate purpose code 8C (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · August 27, 2011
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00190229
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Althouse Jerry L
- 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
- 9804 Air Park Dr
Granbury, TX 76049-4402
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N134DG links to the rest of the register
- Higher Class Aviation 6 aircraft on the register
- Rotax all models (one FAA code) 2,585 aircraft with this engine series
- Granbury, TX 362 aircraft registered in this town
- Granbury Regional · GDJ
- Texas 29,966 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N134DG.json.
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The public federal record on N134DG, 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 Althouse Jerry L, an individual, certificate issued October 20, 2021, expires October 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 27, 2011, 6 years after the 2005 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 0052 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N134DG 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 N134DG: Accident on February 21, 2007 at Granbury, TX: 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: Flight Design CTSW · operated under 091
The pilot's misjudgment of altitude and distance while landing, which resulted in an undershoot of the runway. A contributing factor was the rising terrain on approach to the runway.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data