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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 10, 2026Gippsaero Pty Ltd GA8
N7050F is a Gippsaero Pty Ltd GA8, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2020. It has 8 seats. It is registered to City of Houston, a government body in Houston, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 14, 2021 and expires on June 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated February 5, 2021.
Where is it now Last seen Tuesday at 2:00 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Gippsaero Pty Ltd
- Model
- GA8 · all GA8s and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Gippsaero Pty Ltd GA8 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- GA8-20-262
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Lycoming IO-540-K1A5 · 300 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 8
- Year built
- 2020
- Transponder code
- A9697F (octal 52264577)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- June 14, 2021
- Expires
- June 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 9, 2024
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · February 5, 2021
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01329799
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- City of Houston
- Type
- GovernmentFAA type of owner code 5 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 8402 Larson St
Houston, TX 77061-4107
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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 2
Connections how N7050F links to the rest of the register
- Gippsaero Pty Ltd GA8 32 registered
- Gippsaero Pty Ltd 32 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming IO-540-K1A5 44 aircraft with this engine series · 300 hp
- City Of Houston 7 aircraft in the fleet
- Houston, TX 1,182 aircraft registered in this town
- Conroe/North Houston Regional · CXO
- David Wayne Hooks Memorial · DWH
- Ellington Airport · EFD
- George Bush Intcntl/Houston Airport · IAH
- 8 more landing places in town
- Texas 29,976 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Gippsaero Pty Ltd GA8 14 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Gippsaero Pty Ltd GA8 8 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Gippsaero Pty Ltd GA8 51 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming IO-540-K1A5 38 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming IO-540-K1A5 167 reports since 1995
- Where N7050F is now · Last seen Tuesday at 2:00 pm.
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The public federal record on N7050F, 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 City of Houston, a government body, certificate issued June 14, 2021, expires June 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated February 5, 2021, consistent with the 2020 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial GA8-20-262 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N7050F was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Megill Stephen J CHALLENGER II (serial CH2 0193-0941, cancelled July 30, 2013); Piper PA-28-181 (serial 287790178, cancelled July 26, 1989). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N7050F. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 10, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data