Brian Gafford DRIFTER MU582
N1864L is a Brian Gafford DRIFTER MU582, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2015. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Lewis Center, Ohio. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 6, 2015 and expires on November 30, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated December 21, 2015.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Brian Gafford
- Model
- DRIFTER MU582
- Serial number
- 1001
- 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 · Rotax 503 DCDI · 52 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2015
- Transponder code
- A159E5 (octal 50254745)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). All codes
- Certificate issued
- November 6, 2015
- Expires
- November 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 23, 2023
- 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 · December 21, 2015
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01195136
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Gafford Brian A
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). All codes
- Address
- 1569 Primrose Ave
Lewis Center, OH 43035-8471
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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 N1864L, 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 Gafford Brian A, an individual, certificate issued November 6, 2015, expires November 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated December 21, 2015, consistent with the 2015 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1001 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N1864L 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 N1864L. 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