Fingerhut Steven MINI 500
N570F is a Fingerhut Steven MINI 500, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1997. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Baytown, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 16, 1996 and expires on October 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated July 31, 1997.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Fingerhut Steven
- Model
- MINI 500
- Serial number
- 109
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Bombardier ROTAX (ALL)
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1997
- Transponder code
- A74EE6 (octal 51647346)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 16, 1996
- Expires
- October 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 24, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · July 31, 1997
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00176051
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Fingerhut Steven
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 4323 Skylane Rd
Baytown, TX 77520-9374
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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 N570F, 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 Fingerhut Steven, an individual, certificate issued July 16, 1996, expires October 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated July 31, 1997, consistent with the 1997 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 109 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N570F 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 N570F: Accident on August 27, 1997 at Huffman, TX: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Fingerhut Revolution MINI 500 · operated under 091
The disengagement of the helicopter's collective control tube due to improper installation by the builder. Factors were the lack of sufficient information provided by the kit manufacturer and the pilot's inability to cushion the landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW97LA328 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