Collins Robert S JUST ACFT HIGHLANDER
N409JD is a Collins Robert S JUST ACFT HIGHLANDER, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Alpine, Wyoming. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 27, 2021 and expires on July 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for operating light-sport kit-built, dated November 23, 2007.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Collins Robert S
- Model
- JUST ACFT HIGHLANDER
- Serial number
- JAESC0142
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 912 · 80 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Kit
- JUST AIRCRAFT LLC HIGHLANDER
- Transponder code
- A4CEDC (octal 51147334)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 27, 2021
- Expires
- July 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- July 24, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Operating light-sport kit-built · November 23, 2007
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00436019
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Stern Robert J
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 2765
Alpine, WY 83128-2603
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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 N409JD, 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 Stern Robert J, an individual, certificate issued July 27, 2021, expires July 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for operating light-sport kit-built; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial JAESC0142 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N409JD 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 N409JD: Accident on August 12, 2021 at Brasstown, NC: minor injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Collins Robert S JUST ACFT HIGHLANDER · operated under 091
Failure of the left main landing gear wheel lock nuts, which resulted in a wheel separation and nose over during landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA21LA367 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