Airborne REDBACK
N528PG is an Airborne REDBACK, a weight-shift aircraft with a two-stroke engine, built in 2002. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Jefferson, Oregon. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 14, 2018 and expires on September 30, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated May 16, 2007.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Airborne
- Model
- REDBACK · all REDBACKs and related versions
- Serial number
- 503-719
- Type
- Weight-shift control
- Power
- Two-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 503 DCDI · 52 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2002
- Transponder code
- A6A7F2 (octal 51523762)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 14, 2018
- Expires
- September 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Registered before Jan 31, 2008 · May 16, 2007
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00338879
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Harmsworth Colin C
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 15120 Skelton Rd SE
Jefferson, OR 97352-9225
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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 N528PG, 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 Harmsworth Colin C, an individual, certificate issued September 14, 2018, expires September 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 16, 2007, 5 years after the 2002 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 503-719 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N528PG 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 N528PG: Accident on May 4, 2016 at Arlington, WA: 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: Airborne REDBACK · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to adequately secure the aircraft while manually starting the engine from outside the cockpit, which resulted in the unmanned aircraft becoming airborne and colliding with a hangar roof.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for GAA16CA216 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