Schmelzer David R SONEX
N748DS is a Schmelzer David R SONEX, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2007. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Wimberley, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 20, 2020 and expires on July 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated May 12, 2007.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Schmelzer David R
- Model
- SONEX
- Serial number
- 0867
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Aerovee 2180 · 80 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2007
- Kit
- SONEX LTD SONEX
- Transponder code
- AA109E (octal 52410236)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 20, 2020
- Expires
- July 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 4, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · May 12, 2007
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00317109
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Vogt Thomas Spears
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 1630
Wimberley, TX 78676-1630
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N748DS, 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 Vogt Thomas Spears, an individual, certificate issued July 20, 2020, expires July 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated May 12, 2007, consistent with the 2007 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 0867 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N748DS 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 N748DS. 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 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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data