Car-Mel Inc STD HMLTN ACFT GLSTR
N1711D is a Car-Mel Inc STD HMLTN ACFT GLSTR, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1999. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Hadley, New York. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 4, 2026 and expires on April 30, 2033. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated September 15, 1999.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Car-Mel Inc
- Model
- STD HMLTN ACFT GLSTR
- Serial number
- 5230
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1999
- Transponder code
- A11F63 (octal 50217543)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). All codes
- Certificate issued
- April 4, 2026
- Expires
- April 30, 2033
- Last FAA action
- April 4, 2026
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · Amateur builtFAA certificate purpose code 2 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · September 15, 1999
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00277051
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sterling Douglas J
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). All codes
- Address
- 819 N Shore Rd
Hadley, NY 12835-3308
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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 2
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The public federal record on N1711D, 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 Sterling Douglas J, an individual, certificate issued April 4, 2026, expires April 30, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated September 15, 1999, consistent with the 1999 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 5230 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N1711D was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Bryan Courtney A DRAGON FLY (serial 353, cancelled April 6, 1988); Cessna 170A (serial 20154, cancelled April 19, 1971). 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 N1711D: Accident on February 8, 1984 at Vanolia, OH: minor injuries, destroyed. 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: Bryan DRAGON FLY · operated under 091
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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data