Quicksilver Manufacturing Inc SPORT 2S
N396DF is a Quicksilver Manufacturing Inc SPORT 2S, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a two-stroke engine, built in 2004. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Cleveland, Georgia. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 27, 2007 and expires on June 30, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated October 6, 2007.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Quicksilver Manufacturing Inc
- Model
- SPORT 2S
- Serial number
- 0104
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Two-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 582SER · 65 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2004
- Transponder code
- A49964 (octal 51114544)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 27, 2007
- Expires
- June 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 19, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Registered before Jan 31, 2008 · October 6, 2007
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00397799
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Van Ginkle Henry
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1291 Runway Cir
Cleveland, GA 30528
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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 N396DF, 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 Van Ginkle Henry, an individual, certificate issued August 27, 2007, expires June 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated October 6, 2007, 3 years after the 2004 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 0104 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N396DF 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]
1 NTSB record under N396DF: Accident on September 9, 2016 at Cleveland, GA: minor injuries, substantial damage. 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: Quicksilver Manufacturing INC SPORT 2S · operated under 091
The pilot’s failure to maintain adequate airspeed and his exceedance of the airplane’s critical angle of attack, which resulted in an aerodynamic stall.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA16CA314 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