M-Squared Aircraft SPRINT 1000
N138ZX is a M-Squared Aircraft SPRINT 1000, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a two-stroke engine, built in 2006. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Texarkana, Arkansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 14, 2024 and expires on March 31, 2031. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated September 9, 2009.
Aircraft
- Maker
- M-Squared Aircraft
- Model
- SPRINT 1000 · all SPRINT 1000s and related versions
- Serial number
- 000582DT
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Two-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 618 · 75 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2006
- Transponder code
- A09B3E (octal 50115476)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 14, 2024
- Expires
- March 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- March 14, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Registered before Jan 31, 2008 · September 9, 2009
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00459239
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Smeltzer Paul C
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 152 Mc 422
Texarkana, AR 71854
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.
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The public federal record on N138ZX, 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 Smeltzer Paul C, an individual, certificate issued March 14, 2024, expires March 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated September 9, 2009, 3 years after the 2006 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 000582DT for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N138ZX 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 N138ZX: Accident on May 22, 2018 at Gurdon, AR: serious 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: M-Squared Aircraft SPRINT 1000 · operated under 091
Inadequate engine maintenance, which resulted in the failure of the MAG piston ring and the subsequent total loss of engine power due to a piston seizure.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN18LA189 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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 August 27, 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