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N520R

Dehavilland TIGER MOTH DH 82A

N520R is a Dehavilland TIGER MOTH DH 82A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Rancho Cucamonga, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 24, 2024 and expires on June 30, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated October 1, 1969.

Aircraft

Maker
Dehavilland
Model
TIGER MOTH DH 82A · all TIGER MOTH DH 82As and related versions
Serial number
82960
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Dehav Eng GIPSY MAJOR · 140 hp
Seats
2
Year built
Not given
Cruising speed
81 mph
Transponder code
A68A65 (octal 51505145)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
June 24, 2024
Expires
June 30, 2031
Last FAA action
June 24, 2024
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · October 1, 1969
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
00152415

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Baker Nicholas
Type
Individual
Address
9485 Sherwood Dr
Rancho Cucamonga, CA 91737-1508

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 1

2012-12-11Lockheed 18-56 · Sale reported, canceled

Records check free · 2 to understand · 2 clear

The public federal record on N520R, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Baker Nicholas, an individual, certificate issued June 24, 2024, expires June 30, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

NOTEAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 82960 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N520R was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Lockheed 18-56 (serial 2183, cancelled December 11, 2012). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N520R: Accident on January 11, 1983 at Madison, GA: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

NTSB records 1

ATL83LA087Accident on January 11, 1983 at Madison, GA: no injuries, substantial damage.serial on NTSB record: 2183

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Lockheed 18-56 · operated under 091F

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ATL83LA087 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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