Hardy James E SONERAI I
N72133 is a Hardy James E SONERAI I, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1997. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Elk Grove Village, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 24, 2025 and expires on September 30, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated August 28, 1997.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Hardy James E
- Model
- SONERAI I
- Serial number
- 80
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Volkswagen CONVERSION · 36 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1997
- Transponder code
- A9AA20 (octal 52325040)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 24, 2025
- Expires
- September 30, 2032
- Last FAA action
- September 24, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · August 28, 1997
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00116511
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Nytko Rafal
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 79 Woodcrest Ln
Elk Grove Village, IL 60007-1423
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 2
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N72133, 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 Nytko Rafal, an individual, certificate issued September 24, 2025, expires September 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated August 28, 1997, consistent with the 1997 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 80 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N72133 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna 337G (serial 33701525, cancelled April 11, 1974); Cessna 140 (serial 9300, cancelled October 12, 1955). 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 N72133. 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 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