Sohn Richard AVID FLYER
N2071U is a Sohn Richard AVID FLYER, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2001. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Defuniak Springs, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 1, 2000 and expires on July 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated June 24, 2001.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Sohn Richard
- Model
- AVID FLYER
- Serial number
- 589
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Subaru ALL MDLS A/B · 400 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2001
- Kit
- AVID AIRCRAFT AVID FLYER
- Transponder code
- A1AE92 (octal 50327222)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 1, 2000
- Expires
- July 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 4, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · June 24, 2001
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00923603
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sohn Richard
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 8029 Hwy 1087
Defuniak Springs, FL 32433
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
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N2071U, 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 Sohn Richard, an individual, certificate issued June 1, 2000, expires July 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated June 24, 2001, consistent with the 2001 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 589 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N2071U was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Knisel Edward R CHALLENGER SPECIAL (serial 0393CW0420, cancelled March 21, 1997). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N2071U. 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