Skinner David L ACRO SPORT II
N439DS is a Skinner David L ACRO SPORT II, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Troy, Ohio. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 6, 2023 and expires on September 30, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated October 20, 2007.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Skinner David L
- Model
- ACRO SPORT II
- Serial number
- 1744
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O-320-E2G · 150 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A544E9 (octal 51242351)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 6, 2023
- Expires
- September 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- September 6, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · October 20, 2007
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00292109
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Brinkman Richard L
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 2330 N Forest Hill Rd
Troy, OH 45373-9411
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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 · 2 clear
The public federal record on N439DS, 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 Brinkman Richard L, an individual, certificate issued September 6, 2023, expires September 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1744 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N439DS was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Sikorsky S-58BT (serial 58658, cancelled November 2, 2000). 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 N439DS: Accident on July 16, 1990 at Ovando, MT: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Sikorsky S-58BT · operated under 133
THE PILOT DID NOT MAINTAIN ROTOR RPM AFTER A COMPRESSOR ASSEMBLY BLADE FAILURE. A RELATED FACTOR WAS AN INADEQUATE AUTOROTATION RESULTING IN A HARD LANDING.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for SEA90LA137 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