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N5502J

Quicksilver Aircraft GT-500

Valid Alabama

N5502J is a Quicksilver Aircraft GT-500, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1995. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Carbon Hill, Alabama. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 30, 2022 and expires on July 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for to show compliance with regulations, dated June 15, 2009.

Aircraft

Maker
Quicksilver Aircraft
Model
GT-500
Serial number
GT5-TC0104
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Rotax 582SER · 65 hp
Seats
2
Year built
1995
Transponder code
A70212 (octal 51601022)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
July 30, 2022
Expires
July 31, 2029
Last FAA action
August 18, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · To show compliance with regulations · June 15, 2009
FAA region
Southern
FAA record id
00385562

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Pendley Terry L B
Type
Individual
Address
477 7Th St NE
Carbon Hill, AL 35549-4109

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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

1991-10-16Beech F33A · exported to Brazil · Valid registration
1985-08-02Piper PA-32-260 · Valid registration

Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear

The public federal record on N5502J, 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 Pendley Terry L B, an individual, certificate issued July 30, 2022, expires July 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 15, 2009, 14 years after the 1995 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]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial GT5-TC0104 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N5502J was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Beech F33A (serial CE1450, cancelled October 16, 1991); Piper PA-32-260 (serial 32972, cancelled August 2, 1985). 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 N5502J: Accident on April 27, 1984 at Maynardville, TN: fatal, destroyed (5 fatal). 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

ATL84FA151Accident on April 27, 1984 at Maynardville, TN: fatal, destroyed (5 fatal).serial on NTSB record: 32-972

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Piper PA-32-260 · operated under 091

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ATL84FA151 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