Flight Design Gmbh CTSW
N165CT is a Flight Design Gmbh CTSW, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2006. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Dutiful Son LLC, an LLC in Sheridan, Wyoming. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 8, 2026 and expires on July 31, 2033. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for operating light-sport previously certificated, dated March 9, 2017.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Flight Design Gmbh
- Model
- CTSW · all CTSWs and related versions
- Serial number
- 06-03-09
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 912ULS SERIES · 100 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2006
- Transponder code
- A10485 (octal 50202205)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 8, 2026
- Expires
- July 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- July 8, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Operating light-sport previously certificated · March 9, 2017
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 01017421
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Dutiful Son LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 30 N Gould St Ste R
Sheridan, WY 82801-6317
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N165CT, 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 Dutiful Son LLC, an LLC, certificate issued July 8, 2026, expires July 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated March 9, 2017, 11 years after the 2006 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 06-03-09 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N165CT 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]
1 NTSB record under N165CT: Accident on May 23, 2023 at Gregory, MI: 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: Flight Design GMBH CTSW · operated under 091
The pilot’s improper landing flare that resulted in a hard, bounced landing and subsequent overstress failure of the nose landing gear.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN23LA200 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