Weatherly Aviation Co Inc 620A
N4656M is a Weatherly Aviation Co Inc 620A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1992. It has 1 seat. It is registered to co-owned owners in Doland, South Dakota. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 15, 2017 and expires on May 31, 2027. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated April 13, 1992.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Weatherly Aviation Co Inc
- Model
- 620A · all 620As and related versions
- Serial number
- 1540
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · P&W R-985 SERIES · 450 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1992
- Transponder code
- A5AF64 (octal 51327544)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 15, 2017
- Expires
- May 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Agriculture and pest control · April 13, 1992
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00774882
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Hofer Perry L
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 17870 406Th Ave
Doland, SD 57436-7410 - Co-owners
- Hofer Mikel D
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 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N4656M, 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 Hofer Perry L, a co-owned, certificate issued May 15, 2017, expires May 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Restricted certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated April 13, 1992, consistent with the 1992 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1540 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N4656M was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-11 (serial 11-165, cancelled December 29, 1948). 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]
1 NTSB record under N4656M: Accident on August 10, 2003 at Doland, SD: 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 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Weatherly 620A · operated under 137
The pilot's failure to maintain clearance from the wires and directional control not being possible due to the failure of the brake system. Factors contributing to the accident were the wires, the trees, and the failure of the brake system.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI03LA254 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