Frey TIGER BIRD F-1
N5MF is a Frey TIGER BIRD F-1, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1973. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Waco, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 9, 2005 and expires on July 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated March 6, 1980.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Frey
- Model
- TIGER BIRD F-1
- Serial number
- 1
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-540 SER · 300 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1973
- Cruising speed
- 85 mph
- Transponder code
- A63657 (octal 51433127)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 9, 2005
- Expires
- July 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 4, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · March 6, 1980
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00690845
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Frey Michael L III
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 3513 N Rock Creek Loop
Waco, TX 76708-7031
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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 N5MF, 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 Frey Michael L III, an individual, certificate issued June 9, 2005, expires July 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated March 6, 1980, 7 years after the 1973 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N5MF 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 N5MF: Accident on September 14, 1985 at Kerrville, TX: 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: Homebuilt TIGER BIRD · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW85LRG02 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