Owen I Smith BEARHAWK PATROL
N51VS is an Owen I Smith BEARHAWK PATROL, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2013. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Clark Fork, Idaho. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 3, 2012 and expires on October 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated September 5, 2013.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Owen I Smith
- Model
- BEARHAWK PATROL
- Serial number
- 128
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Aerosport O-375-A1A · 205 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2013
- Transponder code
- A66102 (octal 51460402)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 3, 2012
- Expires
- October 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 16, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · September 5, 2013
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 01108187
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Smith Owen I
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 297 N River Lake Dr
Clark Fork, ID 83811-9778
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
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The public federal record on N51VS, 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 Smith Owen I, an individual, certificate issued October 3, 2012, expires October 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated September 5, 2013, consistent with the 2013 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 128 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N51VS was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Smith Owen I STEWART S51D (serial 162, cancelled December 19, 2011). 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 N51VS: Accident on August 9, 2008 at Oxnard, CA: serious injuries, substantial damage. Accident on September 12, 2004 at Lancaster, CA: 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: Smith Stewart S51D · operated under 091
The loss of engine power for an undetermined reason.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX08LA263 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Smith S-51D · operated under 091
the pilot's misjudged landing flare, failure to correct the descent rate, and failure to execute a go-around during an unstablized landing approach.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX04CA316 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