Gilkey Jeffrey C AEROTRIKE COBRA
N17JX is a Gilkey Jeffrey C AEROTRIKE COBRA, a weight-shift aircraft with a two-stroke engine, built in 2004. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 21, 2006 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated April 27, 2006.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Gilkey Jeffrey C
- Model
- AEROTRIKE COBRA
- Serial number
- C071
- Type
- Weight-shift control
- Power
- Two-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 503 DCDI · 52 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2004
- Transponder code
- A117B2 (octal 50213662)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 21, 2006
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- September 30, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Registered before Jan 31, 2008 · April 27, 2006
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00244369
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Gilkey Jeffrey C
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 11508 Paseo Del Oso NE
Albuquerque, NM 87111-2669
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N17JX, 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 Gilkey Jeffrey C, an individual, certificate issued April 21, 2006, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated April 27, 2006, consistent with the 2004 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial C071 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N17JX 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N17JX. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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