Durtschi Steve NORTH STAR
N2785R is a Durtschi Steve NORTH STAR, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2007. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Cut Bank, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 13, 2011 and expires on June 30, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated November 3, 2007.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Durtschi Steve
- Model
- NORTH STAR
- Serial number
- 122
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Lycoming O-320-E2D · 150 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2007
- Kit
- CUSTOM FLIGHT LIMITED NORTH STAR
- Transponder code
- A2C74B (octal 50543513)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 13, 2011
- Expires
- June 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · November 3, 2007
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00429299
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Torqerson Leif H
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 338
Cut Bank, MT 59427-0338
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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 2
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The public federal record on N2785R, 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 Torqerson Leif H, an individual, certificate issued June 13, 2011, expires June 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated November 3, 2007, consistent with the 2007 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 122 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N2785R was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Messerschmitt-Boelkow-Blohm BO-105S (serial S-642, cancelled August 23, 2001); Fairchild FH-227D (serial 574, cancelled August 24, 1973). 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 N2785R: Accident on August 10, 1999 at Vermilion 250: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Mbb BO-105S · operated under 135
The failure of the pilot to maintain directional control of the helicopter while attempting to takeoff. A factor was the high wind condition.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW99LA215 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