Polaris Motor FIB 582
N227R is a Polaris Motor FIB 582, a weight-shift aircraft with a two-stroke engine, built in 2004. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Tampa, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 23, 2014 and expires on October 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated December 18, 2007.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Polaris Motor
- Model
- FIB 582
- Serial number
- 0431132
- Type
- Weight-shift control
- Power
- Two-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 582DCDI · 65 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2004
- Transponder code
- A1FC79 (octal 50376171)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 23, 2014
- Expires
- October 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 24, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Registered before Jan 31, 2008 · December 18, 2007
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00436699
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Moldovan Michael E
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 5808 Lady Bug Ct
Tampa, FL 33625-1939
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N227R, 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 Moldovan Michael E, an individual, certificate issued October 23, 2014, expires October 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated December 18, 2007, 3 years after the 2004 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 0431132 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N227R 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]
1 NTSB record under N227R: Accident on August 14, 1997 at Lexington, KY: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Dassault DA-20 · operated under 135
The pilot misjudged distance and altitude to the runway after transition from an instrument approach to a visual approach. Factors related to the accident were the rain, and uphill runway conditions at a dark night.
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