Hughes Aero PREDATOR
N26327 is a Hughes Aero PREDATOR, a powered parachute with a two-stroke engine, built in 2006. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Jasper, Georgia. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 30, 2007 and expires on July 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated November 23, 2007.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Hughes Aero
- Model
- PREDATOR · all PREDATORs and related versions
- Serial number
- SH010
- Type
- Powered parachute
- Power
- Two-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 582UL DCDI · 65 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2006
- Transponder code
- A28CE0 (octal 50506340)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 30, 2007
- Expires
- July 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 26, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Registered before Jan 31, 2008 · November 23, 2007
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00410749
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Dean William D JR
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 2360 Andes Rdg
Jasper, GA 30143-7443
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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
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N26327, 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 Dean William D JR, an individual, certificate issued October 30, 2007, expires July 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated November 23, 2007, consistent with the 2006 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial SH010 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N26327 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Grumman American Avn. Corp. AA-5A (serial AA5A0535, cancelled May 11, 2005). 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]
1 NTSB record under N26327: Accident on September 12, 2004 at Brooks, OR: no injuries, destroyed. 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: Grumman American AA-5A · operated under 091
The flight instructor's failure to maintain altitude/clearance on final approach to land resulting in an in-flight collision with terrain. Contributing factors were the student pilot's failure to maintain adequate airspeed during the approach and the flight instructor's delay in taking remedial action.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for SEA04CA186 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
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