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N153DM

Mclaughlin Damian AVID FLYER

N153DM is a Mclaughlin Damian AVID FLYER, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1985. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in North Falmouth, Massachusetts. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 24, 2012 and expires on October 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated September 8, 1986.

Aircraft

Maker
Mclaughlin Damian
Model
AVID FLYER
Serial number
153
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cuyuna ALL MDLS A/B
Seats
2
Year built
1985
Transponder code
A0D5AB (octal 50152653)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
October 24, 2012
Expires
October 31, 2028
Last FAA action
June 16, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · September 8, 1986
FAA region
New England
FAA record id
00432115

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Mclaughlin Damian J JR
Type
Individual
Address
PO Box 538
North Falmouth, MA 02556-0538

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N153DM, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Mclaughlin Damian J JR, an individual, certificate issued October 24, 2012, expires October 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated September 8, 1986, consistent with the 1985 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 153 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N153DM according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N153DM. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data