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N4523

Tucker-Hurni STARDUSTER SA-300

N4523 is a Tucker-Hurni STARDUSTER SA-300, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1970. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Natchez, Mississippi. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 23, 2010 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated July 30, 1981.

Aircraft

Maker
Tucker-Hurni
Model
STARDUSTER SA-300
Serial number
259
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor C125 SERIES · 125 hp
Seats
2
Year built
1970
Cruising speed
105 mph
Transponder code
A57C4B (octal 51276113)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
September 23, 2010
Expires
April 30, 2028
Last FAA action
May 5, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · July 30, 1981
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
00832794

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Thompson Michael P
Type
Individual
Address
115 Woodhaven Dr
Natchez, MS 39120-5256

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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

1930-04-11Eaglerock LONG WING EAGLEROCK · Valid registration

Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear

The public federal record on N4523, 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 Thompson Michael P, an individual, certificate issued September 23, 2010, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated July 30, 1981, 11 years after the 1970 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]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 259 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N4523 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Eaglerock LONG WING EAGLEROCK (serial 468, cancelled April 11, 1930). 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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N4523: Accident on April 27, 2012 at Vidalia, LA: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.

NTSB records 1

CEN12CA272Accident on April 27, 2012 at Vidalia, LA: no injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Tucker-Hurni STARDUSTER SA-300 · operated under 091

The failure of the airplane’s right main landing gear due to a pre-existing fatigue crack and corrosion.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN12CA272 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

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 October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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