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N492NB

David W Birdwell QUICKSILVER SPORT 2S

Valid Texas

N492NB is a David W Birdwell QUICKSILVER SPORT 2S, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a two-stroke engine, built in 2013. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Richmond, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 20, 2020 and expires on May 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated July 17, 2013.

Aircraft

Maker
David W Birdwell
Model
QUICKSILVER SPORT 2S
Serial number
290
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Two-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax R582C · 65 hp
Seats
2
Year built
2013
Kit
QUICKSILVER AERONAUTICS LLC SPORT 2S
Transponder code
A618B4 (octal 51414264)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
May 20, 2020
Expires
May 31, 2027
Last FAA action
January 22, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · July 17, 2013
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
01123941

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Birdwell David W
Type
Individual
Address
23 W Kitty Hawk St
Richmond, TX 77406-9710

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N492NB, 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 Birdwell David W, an individual, certificate issued May 20, 2020, expires May 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated July 17, 2013, consistent with the 2013 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 290 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N492NB according to the deregistered file. [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 N492NB. 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 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