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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 30, 2026Aerotrike SAFARI HKS
N42AT is an Aerotrike SAFARI HKS, a weight-shift aircraft with a four-stroke engine, built in 1998. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Springfield, Virginia. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 3, 2017 and expires on May 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated February 4, 2007.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Aerotrike
- Model
- SAFARI HKS
- Serial number
- BILL-JACOBSON
- Type
- Weight-shift controlFAA type of aircraft code 7 (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 · Hks 700E · 60 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1998
- Transponder code
- A4F958 (octal 51174530)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- May 3, 2017
- Expires
- May 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Registered before Jan 31, 2008FAA certificate purpose code 8A (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · February 4, 2007
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00314939
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Beste Stephen H
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 7814 Penley Pl
Springfield, VA 22151-2422
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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
Connections how N42AT links to the rest of the register
- Aerotrike 12 aircraft on the register
- HKS 700E 155 aircraft with this engine series · 60 hp
- Springfield, VA 33 aircraft registered in this town
- Virginia 5,972 aircraft registered
- Report filed on this aircraft: Blade, cracked · 2001-07-02
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The public federal record on N42AT, 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 Beste Stephen H, an individual, certificate issued May 3, 2017, expires May 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated February 4, 2007, 9 years after the 1998 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial BILL-JACOBSON for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N42AT was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Aerospatiale AS355F2 ECUREUIL (serial 5462, cancelled March 26, 2004). 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 N42AT: Accident on May 17, 2003 at Bainbridge, GA: no 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: Aerospatiale AS355F2 · operated under 091
The pilot's improper flare during an attempted landing.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data