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N1EX

Meserole SKYBOLT 78-1

Valid Alabama

N1EX is a Meserole SKYBOLT 78-1, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Florence, Alabama. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 17, 2019 and expires on July 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated December 23, 1982.

Aircraft

Maker
Meserole
Model
SKYBOLT 78-1
Serial number
WM-1
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor E225 SERIES · 225 hp
Seats
2
Year built
Not given
Transponder code
A0007C (octal 50000174)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
July 17, 2019
Expires
July 31, 2029
Last FAA action
August 18, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · December 23, 1982
FAA region
Southern
FAA record id
00980000

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Faires David K
Type
Individual
Address
201 County Road 295
Florence, AL 35633-3619

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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 1

1975-05-05Thurston Aircraft Corporation TSC-2A · exported to South Africa · Valid registration

Records check free · 1 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N1EX, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Faires David K, an individual, certificate issued July 17, 2019, expires July 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

NOTEAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for amateur built; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial WM-1 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N1EX was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Thurston Aircraft Corporation TSC-2A (serial 1, cancelled May 5, 1975). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N1EX. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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