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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 11, 2026Parkes Thomas D LANCAIR ES
N44AZ is a Parkes Thomas D LANCAIR ES, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2003. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in Huachuca City, Arizona. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 4, 2022 and expires on October 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated January 22, 2003.
Where is it now Last seen October 8 at 4:37 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Parkes Thomas D
- Model
- LANCAIR ES
- Serial number
- ES-089-FB
- 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
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2003
- Kit
- LANCAIR INTL INC LANCAIR ES/ES FAST
- Transponder code
- A5485C (octal 51244134)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- October 4, 2022
- Expires
- October 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- November 7, 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 22, 2003
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00553946
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Galt Sheryl D
- 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
- 690 N Gonzales Blvd Unit 6300
Huachuca City, AZ 85616-0097
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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
Connections how N44AZ links to the rest of the register
- Parkes Thomas D 1 aircraft on the register
- Huachuca City, AZ 7 aircraft registered in this town
- Arizona 8,435 aircraft registered
- Where N44AZ is now · Last seen October 8 at 4:37 pm.
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The public federal record on N44AZ, 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 Galt Sheryl D, an individual, certificate issued October 4, 2022, expires October 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated January 22, 2003, consistent with the 2003 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial ES-089-FB for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N44AZ was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Jerrell Donald A JERRELL RV-4 (serial 1, cancelled July 24, 1996). 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 N44AZ: Accident on March 10, 2016 at Prescott, AZ: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on May 11, 1996 at Englewood, CO: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). Accident on July 4, 1991 at Yellowstonepark, WY: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal). 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: Thomas D. Parkes Lancair ES · operated under 091
A partial loss of engine power due to an over-temperature event, which thermally damaged the blade tips of the turbocharger wheel and resulted in a slowing or stoppage in the rotation of the turbocharger.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Jerrell RV-4 · operated under 091
failure of the pilot of the RV-4, N44AZ, to comply with an ATC clearance by landing on the wrong runway, and the failure of the pilot of the SU-29, N55SU, to maintain an adequate visual lookout. Factors in the accident were: the failure of the air traffic controller to restate the landing runway to the pilot of the RV-4 during a critical period of flight, his failure to advise the pilot of the RV-4 that operations were being conducted on the adjacent runway, a high traffic workload which resulted from an airport open house, and a lack of coordination to accommodate the high traffic workload.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Jerrell RV-4 · operated under 091
A COLLAPSED INDUCTION AIR DUCT. FACTORS INCLUDE INADEQUATE DESIGN BY THE MANUFACTURER/BUILDER, AND A MISJUDGED RATE OF DESCENT BY THE PILOT.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 11, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 11, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 11, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 11, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data