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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 29, 2026Aerotrike COBRA
N43DR is an Aerotrike COBRA, a weight-shift aircraft with a four-stroke engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Scottsdale, Arizona. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 25, 2024 and expires on April 30, 2031. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated January 30, 2010.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Aerotrike
- Model
- COBRA
- Serial number
- COB912S062
- 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 · Rotax 912S · 100 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A52120 (octal 51220440)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- April 25, 2024
- Expires
- April 30, 2031
- Last FAA action
- October 8, 2025
- 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 · January 30, 2010
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00448079
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Reed Dennis P
- 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
- 10632 N Scottsdale Rd Ste 177
Scottsdale, AZ 85254-6164
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 2
Connections how N43DR links to the rest of the register
- Aerotrike 12 aircraft on the register
- Rotax 912S 335 aircraft with this engine series · 100 hp
- Scottsdale, AZ 685 aircraft registered in this town
- Scottsdale Airport · SDL
- Arizona 8,423 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N43DR.json.
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The public federal record on N43DR, 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 Reed Dennis P, an individual, certificate issued April 25, 2024, expires April 30, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial COB912S062 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N43DR was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Gates Learjet 25D (serial 353, cancelled June 19, 2018); Piper PA-38-112 (serial 3882A0016, cancelled December 13, 1997). 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]
3 NTSB records under N43DR: Accident on September 17, 1997 at Greenwood, IN: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on May 8, 1988 at Indianapolis, IN: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on August 19, 1984 at Cheyenne, WY: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 3
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-38-112 · operated under 091
the student pilot's failure to maintain adequate airspeed during the go-around, which resulted in an inadvertant stall. A factor related to the accident was the raising of flaps.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-38-112 · operated under 091
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-38 · operated under 091
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 29, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 29, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 29, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 29, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data