Aerotrike 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.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Aerotrike
- Model
- COBRA
- Serial number
- COB912S062
- Type
- Weight-shift control
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 912S · 100 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A52120 (octal 51220440)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 25, 2024
- Expires
- April 30, 2031
- Last FAA action
- October 8, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Registered before Jan 31, 2008 · January 30, 2010
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00448079
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Reed Dennis P
- Type
- Individual
- 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
Records check free · 2 to understand · 2 clear
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]
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 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.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI97LA295 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-38-112 · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI88LA109 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-38 · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DEN84LA257 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