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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026Cgs Hawk Arrow Ii HAWK ARROW II
N171DB is a Cgs Hawk Arrow Ii HAWK ARROW II, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a two-stroke engine, built in 2004. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Darle Baker Air LLC, an LLC in Ohio City, Ohio. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 22, 2014 and expires on October 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated July 15, 2015.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Cgs Hawk Arrow Ii
- Model
- HAWK ARROW II
- Serial number
- H-A-II-172-F-30-TRI
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Two-cycle pistonFAA type of engine code 7 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Hirth F30 · 80 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2004
- Transponder code
- A11D31 (octal 50216461)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- October 22, 2014
- Expires
- October 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 24, 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 · Registered before Jan 31, 2008FAA certificate purpose code 8A (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · July 15, 2015
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00340729
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Darle Baker Air LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 16087 Dull Robinson Rd
Ohio City, OH 45874-9637
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N171DB links to the rest of the register
- Cgs Hawk Arrow Ii 1 aircraft on the register
- Hirth F30 27 aircraft with this engine series · 80 hp
- Darle Baker Air LLC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Ohio City, OH 1 aircraft registered in this town
- Ohio 8,533 aircraft registered
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The public federal record on N171DB, 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 Darle Baker Air LLC, an LLC, certificate issued October 22, 2014, expires October 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated July 15, 2015, 11 years after the 2004 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 H-A-II-172-F-30-TRI for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N171DB 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 N171DB: Accident on June 3, 1997 at Fort Wayne, IN: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 340A · operated under 091
the pilot did not comply with the decision height and his attention was diverted from his cockpit scan. The factors involved were the weather conditions were at landing minimums and a flight to his destination alternate was not performed.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data