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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 26, 2026Sportflight Intl Llc-Stellar A ASTRA 912
N709TX is a Sportflight Intl Llc-Stellar A ASTRA 912, a weight-shift aircraft with a four-stroke engine, built in 2007. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Smithville, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 8, 2025 and expires on August 31, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated January 9, 2008.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Sportflight Intl Llc-Stellar A
- Model
- ASTRA 912
- Serial number
- A0702308R
- Type
- Weight-shift controlFAA type of aircraft code 7 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Four-cycle pistonFAA type of engine code 8 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Rotax 912UL SERIES · 80 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2007
- Transponder code
- A977BC (octal 52273674)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- August 8, 2025
- Expires
- August 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- August 8, 2025
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Registered before Jan 31, 2008FAA certificate purpose code 8A (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · January 9, 2008
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00394369
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Learmonth Darren S
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 838A Cottletown Rd
Smithville, TX 78957-5096
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No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N709TX links to the rest of the register
- Sportflight Intl Llc-Stellar A 1 aircraft on the register
- Rotax 912UL series 402 aircraft with this engine series · 80 hp
- Smithville, TX 16 aircraft registered in this town
- Smithville Crawford Municipal · 84R
- Texas 29,938 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N709TX.json.
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The public federal record on N709TX, 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 Learmonth Darren S, an individual, certificate issued August 8, 2025, expires August 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated January 9, 2008, consistent with the 2007 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial A0702308R for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N709TX 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N709TX. 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 October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 26, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data