Stachelski Edward D BOWERS FLYBABY 1-A
N5238X is a Stachelski Edward D BOWERS FLYBABY 1-A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1993. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Fayetteville, Tennessee. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 22, 2025 and expires on July 31, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated June 15, 2026.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Stachelski Edward D
- Model
- BOWERS FLYBABY 1-A
- Serial number
- 3812
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor A&C65 SERIES · 65 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1993
- Transponder code
- A69799 (octal 51513631)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 22, 2025
- Expires
- July 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- July 22, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · June 15, 2026
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00504062
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Buck James E
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 351 Patton Hollow Rd
Fayetteville, TN 37334-5513
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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 N5238X, 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 Buck James E, an individual, certificate issued July 22, 2025, expires July 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 15, 2026, 33 years after the 1993 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 3812 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N5238X 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 N5238X: Accident on August 24, 1986 at Lakewood, NJ: 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: Champion 7ECA · operated under 091
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- 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