Ekstrom Dave TWINSTARR
N72DE is an Ekstrom Dave TWINSTARR, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1990. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Mooresville, Indiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 6, 2023 and expires on September 30, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated April 27, 1998.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Ekstrom Dave
- Model
- TWINSTARR
- Serial number
- 001
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1990
- Transponder code
- A9A183 (octal 52320603)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 6, 2023
- Expires
- September 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- September 6, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · April 27, 1998
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00254911
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Baschwit Janie
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1181 W State Road 42
Mooresville, IN 46158-6049
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.
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The public federal record on N72DE, 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 Baschwit Janie, an individual, certificate issued September 6, 2023, expires September 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 27, 1998, 8 years after the 1990 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 001 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N72DE 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 N72DE: Accident on August 25, 1998 at Paducah, KY: no injuries, substantial damage. 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: Ekstrom-Farrington TWINSTAR · operated under 091
Failure of a through-bolt that attached the lateral control arms to the yoke assembly, due to unanticipated rotor brake forces through the flight control system.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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