The U.S. aircraft register, updated daily

No free picture of N5052C or its model is known to the site yet; spotters' pictures may be on Planespotters · JetPhotos · Airliners.net. Operator or owner? Send your own picture.

Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 27, 2026
N5052C

Powrachute Corp PC 2000

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesTexas

N5052C is a Powrachute Corp PC 2000, a powered parachute with a two-stroke engine, built in 2001. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Corpus Christi, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 31, 2018 and expires on July 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated January 20, 2007.

Where is it now checking the live feed…

Checking the volunteer receiver network for a recent position…

Aircraft broadcast their own position; volunteer receivers pool what they hear. Owners who have asked the FAA not to be displayed are not shown.

Flight history: where it flew in the last seven days · follow it on the live map

Aircraft

Maker
Powrachute Corp
Model
PC 2000 · all PC 2000s and related versions
Built of
fabric wing and steel frame
A powered parachute: a fabric wing above a steel-tube cart with the engine and seats. This is how the Powrachute Corp PC 2000 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
Serial number
A220POW
Type
Powered parachuteFAA type of aircraft code 8 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Power
Two-cycle pistonFAA type of engine code 7 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Rotax 582SER · 65 hp
Seats
2
Year built
2001
Transponder code
A64F24 (octal 51447444)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
July 31, 2018
Expires
July 31, 2028
Last FAA action
May 26, 2023
Airworthiness
ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Registered before Jan 31, 2008FAA certificate purpose code 8A (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · January 20, 2007
FAA region
SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00268819

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Lester Gordon W
Type
IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Address
7010 Chiswick Dr
Corpus Christi, TX 78413-5310

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

1990-08-27Bellanca 7GCBC · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office

Connections how N5052C links to the rest of the register

Design
Engine
Place
Airworthiness

The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N5052C.json.

Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear

The public federal record on N5052C, 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 Lester Gordon W, an individual, certificate issued July 31, 2018, expires July 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated January 20, 2007, 6 years after the 2001 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial A220POW for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N5052C was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Bellanca 7GCBC (serial 114679, cancelled August 27, 1990). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N5052C: Accident on July 26, 1987 at Happy Valley, AK: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal). Details below. [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.

NTSB records 1

ANC87LA113Accident on July 26, 1987 at Happy Valley, AK: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal).serial on NTSB record: 114679

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Bellanca 7GCBC · operated under 091

Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB

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 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 27, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data