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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 30, 2026Nelson FLY BABY 1-A
N43LN is a Nelson FLY BABY 1-A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1979. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Huntsville, Alabama. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 18, 1988 and expires on November 30, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated January 24, 2018.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Nelson
- Model
- FLY BABY 1-A
- Serial number
- 6-76-3726
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Cont Motor C85-12 · 85 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1979
- Cruising speed
- 112 mph
- Transponder code
- A521CC (octal 51220714)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- July 18, 1988
- Expires
- November 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- April 1, 2023
- 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 · Amateur builtFAA certificate purpose code 2 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · January 24, 2018
- FAA region
- SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00492014
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Howell James O
- 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
- 739 Bluewood Dr
Huntsville, AL 35802
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No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N43LN links to the rest of the register
- Nelson 8 aircraft on the register
- Continental C85-12 82 aircraft with this engine series · 85 hp
- Huntsville, AL 208 aircraft registered in this town
- Huntsville Intl-Carl T Jones Field · HSV
- Huntsville Executive Tom Sharp JR Field · MDQ
- Moontown Airport · 3M5
- Alabama 4,349 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Continental C85-12 1 airworthiness directives
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N43LN.json.
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The public federal record on N43LN, 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 Howell James O, an individual, certificate issued July 18, 1988, expires November 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated January 24, 2018, 39 years after the 1979 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 6-76-3726 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N43LN according to the deregistered file. [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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N43LN. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data