Hughes Aero Corp PREDATOR
N1659S is a Hughes Aero Corp PREDATOR, a powered parachute with a two-stroke engine, built in 2006. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Apache Junction, Arizona. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 4, 2007 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated September 22, 2007.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Hughes Aero Corp
- Model
- PREDATOR · all PREDATORs and related versions
- Serial number
- PC 120553W302
- Type
- Powered parachute
- Power
- Two-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 582SER · 65 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2006
- Transponder code
- A107E5 (octal 50203745)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 4, 2007
- Expires
- April 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 20, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Registered before Jan 31, 2008 · September 22, 2007
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00352449
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Weesner David F
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 2885 N Holmes Rd
Apache Junction, AZ 85119-8664
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N1659S, 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 Weesner David F, an individual, certificate issued May 4, 2007, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated September 22, 2007, consistent with the 2006 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial PC 120553W302 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N1659S was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Snow 600-S2C (serial 600-1219C, cancelled September 13, 2004). 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 N1659S: Accident on May 25, 1994 at Bancroft, WI: 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: Snow 600-S2C · operated under 091
the pilots failure to select carburetor heat during an extended descent, which resulted in loss of engine power. Factors were carburetor icing conditions and the presence of a ditch at the forced landing site.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI94LA176 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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 August 27, 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