Wishon George F Jr PHANTOM
N5163B is a Wishon George F Jr PHANTOM, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a two-stroke engine, built in 1994. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Birmingham, Alabama. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 30, 2023 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated September 4, 2007.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Wishon George F Jr
- Model
- PHANTOM
- Serial number
- 27199414
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Two-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 503 SERIES · 52 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1994
- Transponder code
- A67A7C (octal 51475174)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 30, 2023
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- February 8, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Registered before Jan 31, 2008 · September 4, 2007
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00359719
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Burke Kevin E
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 361050
Birmingham, AL 35236-1050
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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 N5163B, 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 Burke Kevin E, an individual, certificate issued January 30, 2023, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated September 4, 2007, 13 years after the 1994 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 27199414 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N5163B 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 N5163B: Accident on November 3, 1988 at Phoenix, AZ: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). 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: Bell 47G2 · operated under 091
LOSS OF AIRCRAFT CONTROL BY A UNQUALIFIED PERSON.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX89FA034 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