Gessley Donald W S-51D
N5151S is a Gessley Donald W S-51D, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2006. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Modern Motors LLC, an LLC in Miami, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 19, 2011 and expires on July 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated August 19, 2006.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Gessley Donald W
- Model
- S-51D
- Serial number
- 051
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2006
- Transponder code
- A6768E (octal 51473216)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 19, 2011
- Expires
- July 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 4, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · August 19, 2006
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00843904
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Modern Motors LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 2475 Brickell Ave Apt 902
Miami, FL 33129-2479
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 2
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The public federal record on N5151S, 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 Modern Motors LLC, an LLC, certificate issued July 19, 2011, expires July 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated August 19, 2006, consistent with the 2006 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 051 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N5151S was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Piper PA-34-200T (serial 347870044, cancelled July 19, 1991); Piper PA-28-180 (serial 287105005, cancelled date not given). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N5151S. 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