Stephen J Hoffman MS-500
N778MS is a Stephen J Hoffman MS-500, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2018. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Seabrook, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 12, 2016 and expires on February 28, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated May 23, 2018.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Stephen J Hoffman
- Model
- MS-500
- Serial number
- 4
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Argus AS10-P · 250 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2018
- Transponder code
- AA87E3 (octal 52503743)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 12, 2016
- Expires
- February 28, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Exhibition · May 23, 2018
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 01194054
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Hoffman Stephen J
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 4802 Oleander St
Seabrook, TX 77586-2034
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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 N778MS, 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 Hoffman Stephen J, an individual, certificate issued February 12, 2016, expires February 28, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for exhibition, dated May 23, 2018, consistent with the 2018 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 4 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N778MS 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 N778MS: Accident on October 29, 2022 at Houston, TX: minor injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Stephen J Hoffman MS-500 · operated under 091
The pilot’s failure to secure the magneto switch before attempting to hand rotate the engine which resulted in an inadvertent engine start, a runaway airplane, and subsequent impact with parked airplanes. Contributing to the accident was the failure to properly secure the airplane with chocks.
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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