Rath Michael J SONERAI 2
N1406 is a Rath Michael J SONERAI 2, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Burlington, Kentucky. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 22, 2024 and expires on February 28, 2031. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Rath Michael J
- Model
- SONERAI 2
- Serial number
- 01627LT
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A0A5DA (octal 50122732)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 22, 2024
- Expires
- February 28, 2031
- Last FAA action
- February 22, 2024
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 01441277
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Rath Michael J
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 3388 Idlewild Rd
Burlington, KY 41005-8756
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.
Earlier use of this number 3
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The public federal record on N1406, 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 Rath Michael J, an individual, certificate issued February 22, 2024, expires February 28, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 01627LT for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N1406 was previously assigned to 3 other aircraft: Myers Cecil R D3 AIR-CUB (serial 323, cancelled May 16, 2007); Cessna 190 (serial 7963, cancelled November 15, 1972); Waco GXE (serial 872, cancelled July 1, 1941). 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 N1406: Accident on June 30, 2026 at Cynthiana, KY: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Rath Michael J SONERAI 2 · operated under 091
On June 30, 2026, at about 1030 eastern daylight time, an experimental Sonerai 2 airplane, N1406, was substantially damaged when it was involved in an accident near Cynthiana, Kentucky. The pilot was not injured. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 personal flight. The pilot reported that the purpose of the flight was to perform local air work in the traffic pattern. There were no anomalies noted during the preflight inspection, engine run-up, or subsequent takeoff. The airplane departed with 10 gallons of fuel. About 25 minutes into the flight, after co…
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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data