Worley Dennis SONEX
N563 is a Worley Dennis SONEX, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2006. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Quitman, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 15, 2020 and expires on January 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated September 12, 2007.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Worley Dennis
- Model
- SONEX
- Serial number
- 474
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Volkswagen CONVERSION · 36 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2006
- Kit
- SONEX LTD SONEX
- Transponder code
- A7320E (octal 51631016)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 15, 2020
- Expires
- January 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · September 12, 2007
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00069849
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Beitz Norman R
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 656 County Road 3120
Quitman, TX 75783-5127
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.
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The public federal record on N563, 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 Beitz Norman R, an individual, certificate issued January 15, 2020, expires January 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated September 12, 2007, consistent with the 2006 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 474 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N563 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 N563: Accident on June 18, 2011 at Gardner, KS: no 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: Worley Dennis SONEX · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain a proper glide path during the visual approach.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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 September 30, 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