Robinson David G CHRYSALIS
N1783P is a Robinson David G CHRYSALIS, a balloon with no engine, built in 2013. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Half Moon Bay, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 26, 2013 and expires on March 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated September 27, 2013.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Robinson David G
- Model
- CHRYSALIS
- Serial number
- 004
- Type
- Balloon
- Power
- None · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2013
- Transponder code
- A139B4 (octal 50234664)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 26, 2013
- Expires
- March 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · September 27, 2013
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 01121012
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Robinson David G
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 659 Potter Ave
Half Moon Bay, CA 94019-1832
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
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The public federal record on N1783P, 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 Robinson David G, an individual, certificate issued March 26, 2013, expires March 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated September 27, 2013, consistent with the 2013 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 004 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N1783P was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-22-150 (serial 22-2556, cancelled November 21, 2000). 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 N1783P: Accident on July 6, 2000 at Quincy, IL: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal). 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: Piper PA-22-150 · operated under 091
The pilots failure to maintain control of the aircraft and his continued flight into adverse weather. Factors were the fog, and the crops.
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
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