Drake Raleigh M Jr GEMINI HUMMINGBIRD
N4872N is a Drake Raleigh M Jr GEMINI HUMMINGBIRD, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Tucson, Arizona. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 31, 2020 and expires on March 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated July 11, 1984.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Drake Raleigh M Jr
- Model
- GEMINI HUMMINGBIRD
- Serial number
- 166
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Limbach 1700E · 68 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A60545 (octal 51402505)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 31, 2020
- Expires
- March 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · July 11, 1984
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00120405
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- North Matthew E
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 8101 N Como Dr
Tucson, AZ 85742-4323
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No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N4872N, 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 North Matthew E, an individual, certificate issued March 31, 2020, expires March 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 166 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N4872N according to the deregistered file. [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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N4872N. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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