Dotson William P SNGL SEAT HAWK ARROW
N4209F is a Dotson William P SNGL SEAT HAWK ARROW, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2004. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Vale, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 28, 2017 and expires on August 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated September 20, 2005.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Dotson William P
- Model
- SNGL SEAT HAWK ARROW
- Serial number
- H-SSA-899-R503-TRI
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2004
- Transponder code
- A4FF38 (octal 51177470)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 28, 2017
- Expires
- August 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · September 20, 2005
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00143939
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bertelsen Gary M
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 4456 Burts Rd
Vale, NC 28168-8769
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 2
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The public federal record on N4209F, 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 Bertelsen Gary M, an individual, certificate issued August 28, 2017, expires August 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated September 20, 2005, consistent with the 2004 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial H-SSA-899-R503-TRI for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N4209F was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Piper PA-28R-200 (serial 28R-7635397, cancelled September 17, 1976); Cessna 172 (serial 46109, cancelled May 22, 1965). 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 N4209F: Accident on June 20, 2011 at Carthage, NC: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Dotson William P SNGL SEAT HAWK ARROW · operated under 091
A partial loss of engine power due to the pilot’s improper installation of the engine’s No. 1 cylinder spark plugs.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA11CA355 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