Phoenix Air Sro PHOENIX U15
N40HB is a Phoenix Air Sro PHOENIX U15, a glider with a four-stroke engine, built in 2012. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Danville, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 24, 2019 and expires on July 31, 2029. It holds a light sport airworthiness certificate for glider, dated February 13, 2013.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Phoenix Air Sro
- Model
- PHOENIX U15 · all PHOENIX U15s and related versions
- Serial number
- 18/U15
- Type
- Glider
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 912ULS SERIES · 100 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2012
- Transponder code
- A4AAF9 (octal 51125371)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 24, 2019
- Expires
- July 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Light sport · Glider · February 13, 2013
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 01114242
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Jacobs James M
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 2205 Hidden Oak Dr
Danville, CA 94506-2025
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 · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N40HB, 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 Jacobs James M, an individual, certificate issued July 24, 2019, expires July 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Light sport certificate for glider, dated February 13, 2013, consistent with the 2012 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18/U15 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N40HB was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Thorp T-18 (serial 165, cancelled October 22, 1996). 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 N40HB: Accident on February 24, 1985 at Ada, OK: serious injuries, destroyed. 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: Thorpe T-18 · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW85LA127 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
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