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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 26, 2026Skytrails Lsa PREDATOR
N153ST is a Skytrails Lsa PREDATOR, a powered parachute with a four-stroke engine, built in 2010. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Melissa, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 30, 2020 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for operating light-sport kit-built, dated April 29, 2011.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Skytrails Lsa
- Model
- PREDATOR · all PREDATORs and related versions
- Built of
- aluminium tube and fabricAn ultralight-style airframe: bolted aluminium tubing under sailcloth or fabric, the construction of weight-shift trikes and the lightest two-seaters. An ultralight-style airframe: bolted aluminium tubing under sailcloth. This is how the Skytrails Lsa PREDATOR family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- P582E40200
- Type
- Powered parachuteFAA type of aircraft code 8 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Four-cycle pistonFAA type of engine code 8 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Rotax 582E · 65 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2010
- Transponder code
- A0D6F6 (octal 50153366)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- April 30, 2020
- Expires
- April 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 20, 2023
- 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 · Operating light-sport kit-builtFAA certificate purpose code 8B (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · April 29, 2011
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01048241
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Gracy Christopher R
- 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
- 2408 Berry Grove Ct
Melissa, TX 75454-3020
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N153ST links to the rest of the register
- Skytrails Lsa PREDATOR 11 registered
- Skytrails Lsa 14 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium tube and fabric · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Rotax 582E 82 aircraft with this engine series · 65 hp
- Melissa, TX 14 aircraft registered in this town
- Texas 29,938 aircraft registered
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The public federal record on N153ST, 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 Gracy Christopher R, an individual, certificate issued April 30, 2020, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for operating light-sport kit-built, dated April 29, 2011, consistent with the 2010 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial P582E40200 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N153ST 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 N153ST. 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 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 26, 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 26, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data