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Airborne Windsports Pty Ltd EDGE XT-912-L
N53AW is an Airborne Windsports Pty Ltd EDGE XT-912-L, a weight-shift aircraft with a four-stroke engine, built in 2008. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Three Forks, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 1, 2008 and expires on July 31, 2029. It holds a light sport airworthiness certificate for weight-shift control, dated May 7, 2008.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Airborne Windsports Pty Ltd
- Model
- EDGE XT-912-L · all EDGE XT-912-Ls and related versions
- Built of
- aluminium tube and fabricAn ultralight-style airframe: bolted aluminium tubing under sailcloth or fabric, the construction of weight-shift trikes and the lightest two-seaters. A weight-shift trike: an aluminium-tube carriage under a sailcloth wing. This is how the Airborne Windsports Pty Ltd EDGE XT-912-L family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- XT-912-0182
- Type
- Weight-shift controlFAA type of aircraft code 7 (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 912UL SERIES · 80 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2008
- Transponder code
- A6AE29 (octal 51527051)
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 1, 2008
- Expires
- July 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Light sportFAA airworthiness class code 9 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Weight-shift controlFAA certificate purpose code W (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · May 7, 2008
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00426069
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Woodriff Lee
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 12140 Big Davis Rd
Three Forks, MT 59752-9795
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N53AW links to the rest of the register
- Airborne Windsports Pty Ltd EDGE XT-912-L 48 registered
- Airborne Windsports Pty Ltd 78 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium tube and fabric · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Rotax 912UL series 402 aircraft with this engine series · 80 hp
- Three Forks, MT 35 aircraft registered in this town
- Three Forks Airport · 9S5
- Montana 6,041 aircraft registered
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The public federal record on N53AW, 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 Woodriff Lee, an individual, certificate issued February 1, 2008, expires July 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Light sport certificate for weight-shift control, dated May 7, 2008, consistent with the 2008 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial XT-912-0182 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N53AW 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 N53AW: Accident on October 2, 2016 at Fort Valley, GA: serious injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Airborne Windsports PTY LTD EDGE XT 912 L · operated under 091
The failure of the aircraft’s right overcenter washout strut split ring, which resulted in the pilot’s inability to maintain lateral control of the aircraft and subsequent ground impact.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 26, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data