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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 2, 2026Matze Llc SW-51
N51W is a Matze Llc SW-51, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2025. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Matze LLC, an LLC in Henderson, Nevada. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 11, 2026 and expires on February 28, 2033. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated July 16, 2026.
Where is it now Last seen yesterday at 1:44 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Matze Llc
- Model
- SW-51
- Serial number
- SW-51-039
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Four-cycle pistonFAA type of engine code 8 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Rotax 916 IS A · 160 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas; the engine's maker also approves mogas, UL91, UL94
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2025
- Kit
- SCALEWINGS AIRCRAFT GMBH SW-51
- Transponder code
- A6610A (octal 51460412)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- February 11, 2026
- Expires
- February 28, 2033
- Last FAA action
- February 11, 2026
- 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 · ExhibitionFAA certificate purpose code 3 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · July 16, 2026
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01541882
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Matze LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 209 S Stephanie St # B135
Henderson, NV 89012-5501
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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 2
Connections how N51W links to the rest of the register
- Matze Llc 1 aircraft on the register
- Rotax 916 IS A 122 aircraft with this engine series · 160 hp
- Matze LLC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Henderson, NV 418 aircraft registered in this town
- Nevada 4,586 aircraft registered
- Where N51W is now · Last seen yesterday at 1:44 pm.
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The public federal record on N51W, 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 Matze LLC, an LLC, certificate issued February 11, 2026, expires February 28, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for exhibition, dated July 16, 2026, consistent with the 2025 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial SW-51-039 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N51W was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Fetter COMMANDER (serial 5, cancelled August 10, 2018); Beech E18S (serial BA287, cancelled August 10, 1998). 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]
1 NTSB record under N51W: Accident on July 18, 1985 at Youngstown, OH: 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 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Beech E18S · operated under 135
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data