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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 30, 2026Quicksilver GT-400
N56146 is a Quicksilver GT-400, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a two-stroke engine, built in 2008. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Iron River, Wisconsin. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 21, 2016 and expires on June 30, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated January 12, 2008.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Quicksilver
- Model
- GT-400 · all GT-400s 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. An ultralight-style airframe: bolted aluminium tubing under sailcloth. This is how the Quicksilver GT-400 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
- GT-3499015
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Two-cycle pistonFAA type of engine code 7 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Rotax 447 · 40 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2008
- Transponder code
- A72DA4 (octal 51626644)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- June 21, 2016
- Expires
- June 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 11, 2023
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Registered before Jan 31, 2008FAA certificate purpose code 8A (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · January 12, 2008
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00429149
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Simonson David C
- 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
- 12955 Scenic Dr
Iron River, WI 54847-4860
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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 1
Connections how N56146 links to the rest of the register
- Quicksilver GT-400 21 registered
- Quicksilver 138 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 447 135 aircraft with this engine series · 40 hp
- Iron River, WI 13 aircraft registered in this town
- Bayfield County · Y77
- Wisconsin 6,164 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N56146.json.
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The public federal record on N56146, 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 Simonson David C, an individual, certificate issued June 21, 2016, expires June 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated January 12, 2008, consistent with the 2008 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial GT-3499015 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N56146 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-34-200 (serial 34-7350293, cancelled September 18, 1973). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N56146. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 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 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data