Thornhill Tommy A Jr VARIEZE
N19998 is a Thornhill Tommy A Jr VARIEZE, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1981. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Santa Paula, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 2, 2019 and expires on May 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated November 19, 1981.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Thornhill Tommy A Jr
- Model
- VARIEZE
- Serial number
- 252
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor 0-200 SERIES · 100 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1981
- Transponder code
- A18D4E (octal 50306516)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 2, 2019
- Expires
- May 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 4, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · November 19, 1981
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00961913
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Gottschall Kenneth L III
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 800 E Santa Maria St Unit G
Santa Paula, CA 93060-3522
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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 N19998, 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 Gottschall Kenneth L III, an individual, certificate issued May 2, 2019, expires May 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated November 19, 1981, consistent with the 1981 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 252 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N19998 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna 172M (serial 17260921, cancelled August 12, 2009); North American Aviation Inc X-73 (serial 75-3097, cancelled September 18, 1947). 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 N19998: Accident on September 14, 2005 at Amarillo, TX: minor injuries, destroyed. Details below. [4]
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AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 172M · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain airspeed, which resulted in an inadvertent stall. Contributing factors were the reported loss of engine power for undetermined reasons and the high density altitude.
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