Thacker 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.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Thacker
- Model
- STARDUSTER TOO SA300
- Serial number
- 487
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O-540-B2C5 · 235 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1977
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- A0B7FF (octal 50133777)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 11, 2025
- Expires
- March 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- March 11, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · April 6, 1979
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00501740
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Tropeano Joseph P
- Type
- Individual
- 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.
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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 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