Gray John D BOWERS FLYBABY 1A
N357G is a Gray John D BOWERS FLYBABY 1A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Findlay, Ohio. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 12, 2026 and expires on February 28, 2033. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated October 12, 1993.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Gray John D
- Model
- BOWERS FLYBABY 1A
- Serial number
- 88-4 PATT
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor A&C65 SERIES · 65 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A3FF64 (octal 50777544)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 12, 2026
- Expires
- February 28, 2033
- Last FAA action
- June 18, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · October 12, 1993
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00694941
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Franks Glenn R
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 6094 County Road 18
Findlay, OH 45840-9701
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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
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The public federal record on N357G, 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 Franks Glenn R, an individual, certificate issued February 12, 2026, expires February 28, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 88-4 PATT for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N357G was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Dehavilland DH-104 (serial 04309, cancelled September 3, 1970). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N357G. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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