Rowe Dennis A HIGHLANDER
N257DR is a Rowe Dennis A HIGHLANDER, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Vandergrift, Pennsylvania. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 13, 2020 and expires on November 30, 2027. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Rowe Dennis A
- Model
- HIGHLANDER
- Serial number
- JA257-01-12
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Kit
- JUST AIRCRAFT LLC HIGHLANDER
- Transponder code
- A271DA (octal 50470732)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 13, 2020
- Expires
- November 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- April 1, 2023
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 01328310
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Rowe Dennis A
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 146 Rowe Rd
Vandergrift, PA 15690-8205
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.
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The public federal record on N257DR, 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 Rowe Dennis A, an individual, certificate issued November 13, 2020, expires November 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial JA257-01-12 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N257DR 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 N257DR: Accident on April 10, 2021 at Bluefield, WV: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Rowe Dennis A HIGHLANDER · operated under 091
The pilot’s failure to maintain directional control while landing in a gusty crosswind, which resulted in a ground loop.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA21LA182 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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 August 27, 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