Goodyear Robert J HUMMEL BIRD
N555X is a Goodyear Robert J HUMMEL BIRD, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2005. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Newton, Alabama. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 18, 2005 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated January 14, 2006.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Goodyear Robert J
- Model
- HUMMEL BIRD
- Serial number
- HB-3460
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Rotax SEE BOMBADIER
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2005
- Transponder code
- A7140B (octal 51612013)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 18, 2005
- Expires
- April 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 20, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · January 14, 2006
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00170629
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Goodyear Robert J
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 2639 County Road 55
Newton, AL 36352-7305
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N555X, 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 Goodyear Robert J, an individual, certificate issued April 18, 2005, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated January 14, 2006, consistent with the 2005 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial HB-3460 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N555X was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-19 (serial 18-2136, cancelled May 10, 2004). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N555X: Accident on April 18, 2007 at Lakeland, FL: serious 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: Robert J. Goodyear Hummel Bird · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain airspeed during a go-around.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for MIA07CA078 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
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