Smolek Michael A SAFARI
N252ST is a Smolek Michael A SAFARI, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2007. It has 2 seats. It is registered to El-Li Copter Associates LLC, an LLC in Spring Valley, Wisconsin. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 7, 2020 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated January 30, 2008.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Smolek Michael A
- Model
- SAFARI
- Serial number
- 2116
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O-360-J2A · 145 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2007
- Transponder code
- A2608E (octal 50460216)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 7, 2020
- Expires
- April 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 20, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · January 30, 2008
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00442729
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- El-Li Copter Associates LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- N7618 US Highway 63
Spring Valley, WI 54767-7912
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N252ST, 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 El-Li Copter Associates LLC, an LLC, certificate issued April 7, 2020, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated January 30, 2008, consistent with the 2007 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2116 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N252ST 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N252ST. 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