Stellar Aircraft ASTRA
N43687 is a Stellar Aircraft ASTRA, a weight-shift aircraft with a four-stroke engine, built in 2005. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Cory, Indiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 13, 2006 and expires on January 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated January 9, 2008.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Stellar Aircraft
- Model
- ASTRA
- Serial number
- A0501211R
- Type
- Weight-shift control
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 912UL SERIES · 80 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2005
- Transponder code
- A53CF8 (octal 51236370)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 13, 2006
- Expires
- January 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Registered before Jan 31, 2008 · January 9, 2008
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00291759
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Turner Bob E
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 3383 W County Road 100 S
Cory, IN 47846-8032
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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 · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N43687, 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 Turner Bob E, an individual, certificate issued December 13, 2006, expires January 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated January 9, 2008, 3 years after the 2005 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 A0501211R for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N43687 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Taylorcraft BC12-D (serial 7346, cancelled August 15, 2002). 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 N43687: Accident on September 8, 1996 at Bellaire, MI: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal). 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: Taylorcraft BC-12D · operated under 091
the pilot's improper remedial action, while recovering from an intentional stall, which resulted in an inadvertent spin and collision with the terrain. The lack of altitude for recovery was a related factor.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI96FA332 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