Yakovlev YAK 52
N77YK is a Yakovlev YAK 52, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1986. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Phoenix, Arizona. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 14, 2014 and expires on August 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated April 20, 2006.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Yakovlev
- Model
- YAK 52 · all YAK 52s and related versions
- Serial number
- 866812
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1986
- Transponder code
- AA68DE (octal 52464336)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 14, 2014
- Expires
- August 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Exhibition · April 20, 2006
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00086022
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Hanshew James M
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 21629 N 9Th Ave
Phoenix, AZ 85027-2827
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.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N77YK, 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 Hanshew James M, an individual, certificate issued August 14, 2014, expires August 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 20, 2006, 20 years after the 1986 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 866812 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N77YK was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Yakovlev YAK 52 (serial 822604, cancelled March 20, 1997). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N77YK: Accident on February 2, 1996 at Boynton Beach, FL: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). 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: Yakovlev YAK-52 · operated under 091
Pilot impairment of judgment and performance due to alcohol, his resultant improper planning/decision, and his failure to maintain sufficient altitude above the terrain while performing an aerobatic maneuver. Factors relating to the accident were: the pilot's lack of experience in the make and model of airplane, and his lack of experience in the type of operation (aerobatic flight).
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for MIA96LA074 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
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