Top Dog TD2
N71314 is a Top Dog TD2, a weight-shift aircraft with a two-stroke engine, built in 2007. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Ketchum, Idaho. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 30, 2013 and expires on September 30, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated August 30, 2007.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Top Dog
- Model
- TD2
- Serial number
- 9318
- Type
- Weight-shift control
- Power
- Two-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 582DCDI · 65 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2007
- Transponder code
- A989CA (octal 52304712)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 30, 2013
- Expires
- September 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 2, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Registered before Jan 31, 2008 · August 30, 2007
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00361639
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Schwab Randy L
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 2459
Ketchum, ID 83340-2459
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 3
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N71314, 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 Schwab Randy L, an individual, certificate issued September 30, 2013, expires September 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated August 30, 2007, consistent with the 2007 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 9318 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N71314 was previously assigned to 3 other aircraft: Boeing 737-3TO (serial 23365, cancelled February 19, 2004); Cessna 182M (serial 18259573, cancelled June 6, 1969); Luscombe 8A (serial 2741, cancelled November 19, 1951). 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 N71314: Accident on August 27, 2012 at Bemidji, MN: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal). 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: Top Dog TD2 · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain aircraft control and his inadequate flare during landing. Contributing to the accident was the pilot’s failure to obtain training on the operation of the accident aircraft.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN12LA584 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