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N781AT

Wright SONERAI II

Valid Texas

N781AT is a Wright SONERAI II, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1978. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in White Settlement, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 26, 2018 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated April 25, 1979.

Aircraft

Maker
Wright
Model
SONERAI II
Serial number
152
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Volkswagen CONVERSION · 36 hp
Seats
2
Year built
1978
Cruising speed
85 mph
Transponder code
AA944F (octal 52512117)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
January 26, 2018
Expires
January 31, 2028
Last FAA action
April 14, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · April 25, 1979
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
00244860

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Cole Thomas E
Type
Individual
Address
1305 Dale Ln
White Settlement, TX 76108-6384

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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 N781AT, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Cole Thomas E, an individual, certificate issued January 26, 2018, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated April 25, 1979, consistent with the 1978 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 152 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N781AT according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N781AT. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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