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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 11, 2026
N451

Star CAVALIER

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesPennsylvania

N451 is a Star CAVALIER, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Bethel, Pennsylvania. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 1, 1996 and expires on August 31, 2029. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.

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Aircraft

Maker
Star
Model
CAVALIER
Serial number
105
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
2
Year built
Not given
Cruising speed
81 mph
Transponder code
A575D2 (octal 51272722)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
February 1, 1996
Expires
August 31, 2029
Last FAA action
August 25, 2023
Airworthiness
None on file
FAA region
EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00555781

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Dougherty Paul D JR
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
371 Airport Rd
Bethel, PA 19507-9692

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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 3

1993-04-23Ostreka George STEEN SKYBOLT · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office
1965-05-18Beech D18S · Valid registration
1933-06-29Star CAVALIER · Valid registration

Connections how N451 links to the rest of the register

Design
  • Star 3 aircraft on the register
Place

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Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N451, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Dougherty Paul D JR, an individual, certificate issued February 1, 1996, expires August 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate

No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 105 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N451 was previously assigned to 3 other aircraft: Ostreka George STEEN SKYBOLT (serial 1951GO, cancelled April 23, 1993); Beech D18S (serial A-540, cancelled May 18, 1965); Star CAVALIER (serial 104, cancelled June 29, 1933). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N451. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 11, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 11, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 11, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 11, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data