Hopkins Gary S TITAN TORNADO I
N2715A is a Hopkins Gary S TITAN TORNADO I, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a two-stroke engine, built in 1998. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Virginia Beach, Virginia. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 30, 2007 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated October 28, 2007.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Hopkins Gary S
- Model
- TITAN TORNADO I
- Serial number
- T98503COHK0298
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). All codes
- Power
- Two-cycle pistonFAA type of engine code 7 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). All codes, 1 motor · Rotax 503 SERIES · 52 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1998
- Transponder code
- A2AD3B (octal 50526473)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). All codes
- Certificate issued
- August 30, 2007
- Expires
- January 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 14, 2023
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · Registered before Jan 31, 2008FAA certificate purpose code 8A (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · October 28, 2007
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00403599
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Hopkins Gary S
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). All codes
- Address
- 925 Enfield Chase
Virginia Beach, VA 23452-6166
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.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N2715A, 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 Hopkins Gary S, an individual, certificate issued August 30, 2007, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated October 28, 2007, 9 years after the 1998 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial T98503COHK0298 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N2715A was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Beech V35A (serial D9046, cancelled July 28, 1990). 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 N2715A: Accident on October 2, 1988 at Derry, NH: serious 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: Beech V35A · operated under 091
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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