Maxair Drifter DRIFTER II
N42548 is a Maxair Drifter DRIFTER II, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2008. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Westmoreland, Tennessee. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 18, 2016 and expires on February 28, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated February 19, 2009.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Maxair Drifter
- Model
- DRIFTER II
- Serial number
- MD 2008
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 912UL SERIES · 80 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2008
- Transponder code
- A51137 (octal 51210467)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 18, 2016
- Expires
- February 28, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Registered before Jan 31, 2008 · February 19, 2009
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00459849
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Gregory David A
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 199 Angela Ln
Westmoreland, TN 37186-3192
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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 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N42548, 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 Gregory David A, an individual, certificate issued February 18, 2016, expires February 28, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated February 19, 2009, consistent with the 2008 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial MD 2008 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N42548 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper J3C-65 (serial 14825, cancelled June 16, 1976). 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 N42548: Accident on September 1, 2013 at Lafayette, TN: 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: Maxair Drifter DRIFTER II · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain aircraft control during the initial climb after takeoff in gusty wind conditions, which resulted in a hard off-airport landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA13CA400 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