Soaring Concepts SKY TREK
N6178X is a Soaring Concepts SKY TREK, a powered parachute with a two-stroke engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Sunrise Beach, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 23, 2018 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated January 23, 2008.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Soaring Concepts
- Model
- SKY TREK
- Serial number
- 2004029
- Type
- Powered parachute
- Power
- Two-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 582ULDCDI-99 · 65 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A80C45 (octal 52006105)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 23, 2018
- Expires
- April 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 5, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Registered before Jan 31, 2008 · January 23, 2008
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00387029
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Metcalf Jerry J
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 128 Inspiration Dr
Sunrise Beach, TX 78643-9390
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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
Records check free · 2 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N6178X, 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 Metcalf Jerry J, an individual, certificate issued April 23, 2018, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2004029 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N6178X was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Brandes Roy H CASSUTT SPORT/RACER (serial 702, cancelled August 16, 1997). 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]
1 NTSB record under N6178X: Incident on May 6, 1983 at Youngstown, OH: no injuries, minor 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: Aero Commander 500B · operated under 135
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI83IA209 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
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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data