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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 4, 2026Spirit Engineering Inc SE-1
N40233 is a Spirit Engineering Inc SE-1, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2025. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Rockys Flying Service LLC, an LLC in Wilmington, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 19, 2026 and expires on August 31, 2033. It holds a light sport airworthiness certificate for airplane, dated December 22, 2025. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).
Where is it now Last seen Saturday at 12:22 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Spirit Engineering Inc
- Model
- SE-1 · all SE-1s and related versions
- Serial number
- 015
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Four-cycle pistonFAA type of engine code 8 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Spirit Eng SPIRIT V2 · 42 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2025
- Transponder code
- A4B6EC (octal 51133354)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- August 19, 2026
- Expires
- August 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- August 19, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Light sportFAA airworthiness class code 9 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · AirplaneFAA certificate purpose code A (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · December 22, 2025
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01518857
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Rockys Flying Service LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 108 W 13Th St
Wilmington, DE 19801-1145
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 1
Earlier use of this number 3
Connections how N40233 links to the rest of the register
- Spirit Engineering Inc SE-1 65 registered
- Spirit Engineering Inc 65 aircraft on the register
- Spirit Eng SPIRIT V2 16 aircraft with this engine series · 42 hp
- Rockys Flying Service LLC 2 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Wilmington, DE 7,379 aircraft registered in this town
- New Castle Airport · ILG
- Delaware 10,970 aircraft registered
- Where N40233 is now · Last seen Saturday at 12:22 pm.
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The public federal record on N40233, 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 Rockys Flying Service LLC, an LLC, certificate issued August 19, 2026, expires August 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Light sport certificate for airplane, dated December 22, 2025, consistent with the 2025 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 015 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N40233 was previously assigned to 3 other aircraft: Avia Stroitel AC-5M (serial 004, cancelled January 23, 2024); Robinson Helicopter R22 BETA (serial 1489, cancelled October 31, 1991); Piper PA-23-250 (serial 27-7305033, cancelled June 25, 1973). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]
1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (October 9, 2026). [3]
1 NTSB record under N40233: Accident on July 5, 2023 at North Plains, OR: serious 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: Avia Stroitel AC-5M · operated under 091
The pilot’s failure to maintain control of the motor glider, which resulted in an inflight overstress separation of the right wing during a high-speed, high-wing-load spiral dive recovery. Contributing to the accident was the inadequately manufactured wing structure.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 4, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data