Bailey-Moyes DRAGONFLY
N3849A is a Bailey-Moyes DRAGONFLY, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 1999. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Whitewater, Wisconsin. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 1, 2017 and expires on May 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated December 5, 2007.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bailey-Moyes
- Model
- DRAGONFLY
- Serial number
- 001
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 912S · 100 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1999
- Transponder code
- A46DBA (octal 51066672)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 1, 2017
- Expires
- May 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Registered before Jan 31, 2008 · December 5, 2007
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00405119
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Lange Daniel M
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- N463 County Road N
Whitewater, WI 53190-2844
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 N3849A, 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 Lange Daniel M, an individual, certificate issued May 1, 2017, expires May 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated December 5, 2007, 8 years after the 1999 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 001 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N3849A was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Schweizer SGU 2-22C (serial 73, cancelled December 13, 1971). 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 N3849A: Accident on June 23, 2026 at Whitewater, WI: fatal (1 fatal). 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: Bailey-Moyes DRAGONFLY · operated under 091
On June 22, 2026, about 1915 central daylight time, a Bailey-Moyes Dragonfly, N3849A, was involved in an accident near Whitewater, Wisconsin. The pilot of the Dragonfly was not injured. The pilot of the hang glider in tow was fatally injured. The tow operation was conducted under the provisions of Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 as a glider tow flight. The Dragonfly, a tow plane with a hang glider in tow, took off and had reached an altitude of about 30 ft above the ground when the pilot of the tow plane felt something through the tow cable. When he looked back, he saw the hang g…
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- 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