Stephen J Thompson M24 ORION PLUS
N4731D is a Stephen J Thompson M24 ORION PLUS, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 2022. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Sharpsville, Indiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 28, 2022 and expires on March 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated May 20, 2022.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Stephen J Thompson
- Model
- M24 ORION PLUS
- Serial number
- 24223536
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Rotax 915 IS · 135 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2022
- Kit
- MAGNI GYRO SRL M24 ORION PLUS
- Transponder code
- A5CEBE (octal 51347276)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 28, 2022
- Expires
- March 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 21, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · May 20, 2022
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 01362889
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Thompson Stephen J
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 6270 N 800 W
Sharpsville, IN 46068-9236
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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 2
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The public federal record on N4731D, 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 Thompson Stephen J, an individual, certificate issued March 28, 2022, expires March 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated May 20, 2022, consistent with the 2022 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 24223536 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N4731D was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna 172N (serial 17272342, cancelled January 8, 2003); Cessna 182A (serial 34831, cancelled April 23, 1974). 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 N4731D: Accident on August 14, 2002 at Shell Lake, WI: fatal, destroyed (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 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 172N · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to refuel the airplane prior to departure leading to fuel exhaustion during the flight, the inadequate preflight/inflight planning, and the unsuitable terrain encountered by the pilot during the forced landing attempt. Contributing factors were the pilot being fatigued, the night lighting condition, and the corn crop.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI02FA247 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data