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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 4, 2026Thacker STARDUSTER TOO SA300
N14525 is a Thacker STARDUSTER TOO SA300, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1977. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Ocala, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 11, 2025 and expires on March 31, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated April 6, 1979.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Thacker
- Model
- STARDUSTER TOO SA300
- Serial number
- 487
- 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 · Lycoming O-540-B2C5 · 235 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1977
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- A0B7FF (octal 50133777)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- March 11, 2025
- Expires
- March 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- March 11, 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 · Amateur builtFAA certificate purpose code 2 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · April 6, 1979
- FAA region
- SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00501740
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Tropeano Joseph P
- 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
- 9087 SE 72Nd Ave
Ocala, FL 34472-9202
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N14525 links to the rest of the register
- Thacker 1 aircraft on the register
- Lycoming O-540-B2C5 13 aircraft with this engine series · 235 hp
- Ocala, FL 410 aircraft registered in this town
- Ocala Intl-Jim Taylor Field · OCF
- Florida 21,696 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming O-540-B2C5 22 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming O-540-B2C5 16 reports since 1995
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N14525.json.
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The public federal record on N14525, 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 Tropeano Joseph P, an individual, certificate issued March 11, 2025, expires March 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated April 6, 1979, consistent with the 1977 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 487 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N14525 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 N14525: Accident on May 2, 1997 at Lake Wales, FL: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Thacker STARDUSTER TOO SA300 · operated under 091
failure of the tail wheel to lock in the centered detent during the beginning of the takeoff roll, which resulted in the pilot being unable to maintain directional control and the aircraft drifting off the runway and nosing over in the soft ground.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 4, 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 4, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data