Hartline John Bon HARTLINE PULSAR I
N72BH is a Hartline John Bon HARTLINE PULSAR I, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1990. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Morgan City, Louisiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 30, 2023 and expires on December 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated July 18, 1990.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Hartline John Bon
- Model
- HARTLINE PULSAR I
- Serial number
- 165
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Bombardier ROTAX (ALL)
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1990
- Transponder code
- A9A154 (octal 52320524)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 30, 2023
- Expires
- December 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- December 30, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · July 18, 1990
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00754911
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Matherne Gerald M
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 9008 Highway 182 E
Morgan City, LA 70380-6014
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N72BH, 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 Matherne Gerald M, an individual, certificate issued December 30, 2023, expires December 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated July 18, 1990, consistent with the 1990 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 165 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N72BH 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]
1 NTSB record under N72BH: Accident on February 25, 2024 at Patterson, LA: serious injuries, destroyed. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Pulsar I · operated under 091
The non-certificated pilot’s decision to operate an unairworthy engine, which led to cylinder failure and a loss of engine power.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN24LA120 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data