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Smith Mehlin HATZ BIPLANE
N255MS is a Smith Mehlin HATZ BIPLANE, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2004. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Andersonville, Georgia. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 4, 2016 and expires on April 30, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated July 9, 2004.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Smith Mehlin
- Model
- HATZ BIPLANE
- Serial number
- 1
- 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 · Warner SCARAB SERIES · 125 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2004
- Transponder code
- A26B35 (octal 50465465)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- April 4, 2016
- Expires
- April 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 28, 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 · July 9, 2004
- FAA region
- SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00054094
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Hodges Mcneill JR
- Type
- Co-ownedFAA type of owner code 4 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 428 Neil Hodges Rd
Andersonville, GA 31711-1917 - Co-owners
- Hodges William T
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N255MS links to the rest of the register
- Smith Mehlin 1 aircraft on the register
- Warner SCARAB series 71 aircraft with this engine series · 125 hp
- Andersonville, GA 7 aircraft registered in this town
- Georgia 8,790 aircraft registered
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The public federal record on N255MS, 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 Hodges Mcneill JR, a co-owned, certificate issued April 4, 2016, expires April 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated July 9, 2004, consistent with the 2004 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N255MS 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 N255MS. 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