Davis John S SONEX
N555SX is a Davis John S SONEX, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2003. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Louisville, Kentucky. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 23, 2021 and expires on November 30, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for operating kit-built aircraft, dated March 26, 2010.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Davis John S
- Model
- SONEX
- Serial number
- 0523
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Jabiru 3300 · 120 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2003
- Kit
- SONEX LTD SONEX
- Transponder code
- A713A4 (octal 51611644)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 23, 2021
- Expires
- November 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- July 28, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Operating kit-built aircraft · March 26, 2010
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00070709
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bendel James H JR
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 9208 Fenmore Ave
Louisville, KY 40272-3412
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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 N555SX, 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 Bendel James H JR, an individual, certificate issued November 23, 2021, expires November 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated March 26, 2010, 7 years after the 2003 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 0523 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N555SX 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 N555SX: Accident on February 6, 2009 at Crossville, TN: minor 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: Davis Sonex · operated under 091
A total loss of engine power during initial climb due to the failure of the ignition power supply as a result of the improper installation of the electronic control unit.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA09CA162 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