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N3280T

Powrachute Corp PEGASUS

Valid Kansas

N3280T is a Powrachute Corp PEGASUS, a powered parachute with a two-stroke engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Leoti, Kansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 19, 2006 and expires on July 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated August 22, 2006.

Aircraft

Maker
Powrachute Corp
Model
PEGASUS · all PEGASUSs and related versions
Serial number
A160PEG
Type
Powered parachute
Power
Two-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 582DCDI · 65 hp
Seats
2
Year built
Not given
Transponder code
A38E72 (octal 50707162)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
June 19, 2006
Expires
July 31, 2027
Last FAA action
March 4, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Registered before Jan 31, 2008 · August 22, 2006
FAA region
Central
FAA record id
00258539

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Ridder Jerome J
Type
Individual
Address
432 E County Road O
Leoti, KS 67861-6114

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

2003-04-10Cessna 177 · exported to Mexico · Sale reported

Records check free · 1 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N3280T, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Ridder Jerome J, an individual, certificate issued June 19, 2006, expires July 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

NOTEAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial A160PEG for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N3280T was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 177 (serial 17700580, cancelled April 10, 2003). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N3280T. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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