Patrick E Smith CAVALON
N153PS is a Patrick E Smith CAVALON, a rotorcraft with a four-stroke engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2016. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Van Alstyne, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 25, 2016 and expires on August 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated September 30, 2016.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Patrick E Smith
- Model
- CAVALON
- Serial number
- V00261
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 914UL · 115 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2016
- Kit
- AUTOGYRO GMBH CAVALON
- Transponder code
- A0D6AA (octal 50153252)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 25, 2016
- Expires
- August 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 25, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · September 30, 2016
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 01228510
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Smith Patrick E
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 10848 Farmington Rd
Van Alstyne, TX 75495-2249
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
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The public federal record on N153PS, 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 Smith Patrick E, an individual, certificate issued August 25, 2016, expires August 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated September 30, 2016, consistent with the 2016 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial V00261 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N153PS was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Pzl-Swidnik PW-5 (serial 17.10.025, cancelled January 8, 2007). 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 N153PS: Accident on March 4, 2006 at Hardwick, NJ: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Pzl-Swidnik PW-5 · operated under 091
A loss of lift which resulted in a forced landing.
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
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