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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026William J Prokes STARLET
N23ME is a William J Prokes STARLET, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2016. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Gilbert, Arizona. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 13, 2016 and expires on September 30, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated December 14, 2016.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- William J Prokes
- Model
- STARLET
- Serial number
- PAF3
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Franklin 4AC199D&E SER · 90 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2016
- Transponder code
- A2073F (octal 50403477)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- September 13, 2016
- Expires
- September 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 2, 2023
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · 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 14, 2016
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01229996
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Prokes William J
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 729 N Golden Key St Ste 200
Gilbert, AZ 85233-3859
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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
Connections how N23ME links to the rest of the register
- William J Prokes 2 aircraft on the register
- Franklin 4AC199D&E series 89 aircraft with this engine series · 90 hp
- Gilbert, AZ 222 aircraft registered in this town
- Arizona 8,410 aircraft registered
- Report filed on this aircraft: Skin, delaminated · 1998-02-10
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The public federal record on N23ME, 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 Prokes William J, an individual, certificate issued September 13, 2016, expires September 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated December 14, 2016, consistent with the 2016 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial PAF3 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N23ME was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Gregory Donovan M TAYLOR MONOPLANE (serial TM24ME, cancelled January 27, 1999). 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 N23ME. 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 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data