Duffy James W SMITH MINIPLANE DSA1
N27JD is a Duffy James W SMITH MINIPLANE DSA1, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in El Prado, New Mexico. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 19, 1994 and expires on April 30, 2028. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Duffy James W
- Model
- SMITH MINIPLANE DSA1
- Serial number
- 1
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A2A4EF (octal 50522357)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 19, 1994
- Expires
- April 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 5, 2023
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00865171
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Desouza Ferdinand E
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 2051
El Prado, NM 87529-2051
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 N27JD, 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 Desouza Ferdinand E, an individual, certificate issued September 19, 1994, expires April 30, 2028. 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 1 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N27JD 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]
2 NTSB records under N27JD: Accident on June 15, 1991 at Ogden, UT: minor injuries, substantial damage. Accident on July 20, 1984 at Greenwood, MS: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Duffy SMITH MINI PLANE · operated under 091
A PREMATURE LIFTOFF AND SUBSEQUENT STALL.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for SEA91LA132 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: De Havilland DHC-1B · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ATL84FA225 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