Stoelting Wade B JUST ACFT HIGHLANDER
N563JA is a Stoelting Wade B JUST ACFT HIGHLANDER, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2023. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Great Falls, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 28, 2023 and expires on July 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated November 6, 2024.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Stoelting Wade B
- Model
- JUST ACFT HIGHLANDER
- Serial number
- JA563-8-19
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Yamaha APEX 998CC · 148 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2023
- Kit
- JUST AIRCRAFT LLC HIGHLANDER
- Transponder code
- A732D8 (octal 51631330)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 28, 2023
- Expires
- July 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- April 26, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · November 6, 2024
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 01414610
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Stoelting Wade B
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 123 Big Bend Ln
Great Falls, MT 59404-6488
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No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N563JA, 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 Stoelting Wade B, an individual, certificate issued July 28, 2023, expires July 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated November 6, 2024, consistent with the 2023 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial JA563-8-19 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N563JA 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 N563JA: Accident on April 8, 2026 at Great Falls, MT: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Just Aircraft Highlander · operated under 091
On April 8, 2026, about 1106 mountain daylight time, an experimental amateur built Just Aircraft Highlander, N563JA, was substantially damaged when it was involved in an accident near Great Falls, Montana. The pilot was not injured. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 personal flight. The pilot reported that after he departed Great Falls International Airport (GTF), Great Falls, Montana, he intended to land on a private grass surface airstrip about 5.5 nautical miles to the southwest. While on the final approach to the grass airstrip, he applied right ru…
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- 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