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N4312Q

Happy Valley Trikes 2P

Valid Georgia

N4312Q is a Happy Valley Trikes 2P, a weight-shift aircraft with a two-stroke engine, built in 2006. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Ringgold, Georgia. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 26, 2025 and expires on August 31, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated November 11, 2006.

Aircraft

Maker
Happy Valley Trikes
Model
2P
Serial number
HVT019
Type
Weight-shift control
Power
Two-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 503 SERIES · 52 hp
Seats
2
Year built
2006
Transponder code
A52982 (octal 51224602)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
August 26, 2025
Expires
August 31, 2032
Last FAA action
August 26, 2025
Airworthiness
Experimental · Registered before Jan 31, 2008 · November 11, 2006
FAA region
Southern
FAA record id
00294799

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Sims Dustin B
Type
Individual
Address
18 Lindsey Dr
Ringgold, GA 30736-5965

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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

2002-01-14Cessna 172L · Valid registration

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N4312Q, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Sims Dustin B, an individual, certificate issued August 26, 2025, expires August 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated November 11, 2006, consistent with the 2006 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial HVT019 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N4312Q was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 172L (serial 17260212, cancelled January 14, 2002). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N4312Q: Accident on September 16, 2001 at Tucson, AZ: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). Details below. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

NTSB records 1

LAX01LA286Accident on September 16, 2001 at Tucson, AZ: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal).serial on NTSB record: 17260212

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 172L · operated under 091

the pilot's controlled descent into a residence for undetermined reasons.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX01LA286 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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