Aviat Aircraft Inc A-1A
N503MZ is an Aviat Aircraft Inc A-1A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1998. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Goldsmith, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 4, 2014 and expires on March 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated April 2, 1998.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Aviat Aircraft Inc
- Model
- A-1A · all A-1As and related versions
- Serial number
- 1405
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-360-A1D · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1998
- Transponder code
- A64640 (octal 51443100)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 4, 2014
- Expires
- March 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · April 2, 1998
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00647101
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Wight Schuyler III
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 433
Goldsmith, TX 79741-0433
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N503MZ, 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 Wight Schuyler III, an individual, certificate issued March 4, 2014, expires March 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated April 2, 1998, consistent with the 1998 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1405 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N503MZ 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]
1 NTSB record under N503MZ: Accident on January 28, 1998 at Buena Vista, CO: 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: Aviat A-1 · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain directional control of the airplane. Factors were the crosswind changing to a tailwind, and the pilot's lack of experience in the type of aircraft.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW98LA110 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