Ecker D/Hackett W STARDUSTER I
N74EK is an Ecker D/Hackett W STARDUSTER I, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1998. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Lake Providence, Louisiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 10, 2012 and expires on December 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated December 4, 1998.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Ecker D/Hackett W
- Model
- STARDUSTER I
- Serial number
- 174
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-290 SERIES · 140 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1998
- Transponder code
- A9F09F (octal 52370237)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 10, 2012
- Expires
- December 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- July 1, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · December 4, 1998
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00927011
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Faires Thomas F JR
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 225
Lake Providence, LA 71254-0225
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No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N74EK, 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 Faires Thomas F JR, an individual, certificate issued December 10, 2012, expires December 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated December 4, 1998, consistent with the 1998 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 174 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N74EK 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 N74EK: Accident on March 6, 2005 at Millington, TN: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Ecker Starduster 1 · operated under 091
The malfunction of the left main landing gear wheel brake during landing roll on a grassy area, resulting in a nose over.
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- 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