Powrachute PEGASUS
N5157T is a Powrachute PEGASUS, a powered parachute with a four-stroke engine, built in 2003. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Benson, Arizona. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 21, 2007 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated September 8, 2007.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Powrachute
- Model
- PEGASUS · all PEGASUSs and related versions
- Serial number
- A127PEG
- Type
- Powered parachute
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 582UL · 65 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2003
- Transponder code
- A67761 (octal 51473541)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 21, 2007
- Expires
- April 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 20, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Registered before Jan 31, 2008 · September 8, 2007
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00357349
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Merrill Chester R
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 2004
Benson, AZ 85602-2004
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
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N5157T, 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 Merrill Chester R, an individual, certificate issued May 21, 2007, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated September 8, 2007, 4 years after the 2003 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]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial A127PEG for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N5157T was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna R182 (serial R18201826, cancelled January 11, 2005); Champion 7GCAA (serial 151, cancelled March 19, 1974). 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]
2 NTSB records under N5157T: Accident on September 23, 2004 at Milton, FL: fatal, destroyed (4 fatal). Accident on December 9, 1990 at Orlando, FL: 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna R182 · operated under 091
The pilots operation of the airplane with known deficiencies in the equipment based on witness statements describing an excessive rpm drop and rough running engine after starting, during the engine run-up, and after becoming airborne, his failure to abort the takeoff after an excessive takeoff roll, and his failure to maintain airspeed resulting in an inadvertent stall, uncontrolled descent, and in-flight collision with terrain. A factor in the accident was the loss of engine power due to undetermined reasons.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for MIA04FA128 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 182RG · operated under 091
FAILURE OF THE PILOT TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL DURING THE LANDING ROLL.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for MIA91LA041 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
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