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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 28, 2026Howard Aircraft DGA-8
N14873 is a Howard Aircraft DGA-8, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 5 seats. It is registered to Heartland Aviation LLC, an LLC in Ada, Oklahoma. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 29, 2023 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated July 10, 1947.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Howard Aircraft
- Model
- DGA-8
- Serial number
- 73
- 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 · Wright 760E-2 · 350 hp
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 153 mph
- Transponder code
- A0C3D1 (octal 50141721)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- January 29, 2023
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- January 29, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · July 10, 1947
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00013789
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Heartland Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 300 Ray Stout Blvd
Ada, OK 74820-1908
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N14873 links to the rest of the register
- Howard Aircraft 109 aircraft on the register
- Wright 760E-2 28 aircraft with this engine series · 350 hp
- Heartland Aviation LLC 9 aircraft in the fleet
- Holds an FAA aircraft dealer certificate · expired
- Ada, OK 43 aircraft registered in this town
- Ada Regional · ADH
- Oklahoma 5,643 aircraft registered
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Records check free · 0 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N14873, 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 Heartland Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued January 29, 2023, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 73 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N14873 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N14873. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 28, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 28, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 28, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 28, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data