Noonan Kenneth R VARI-EZE
N785 is a Noonan Kenneth R VARI-EZE, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Altoona, Pennsylvania. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 1, 1987 and expires on March 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated April 22, 1986.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Noonan Kenneth R
- Model
- VARI-EZE
- Serial number
- 1156
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-235 SERIES · 115 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- AAA318 (octal 52521430)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 1, 1987
- Expires
- March 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 28, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · April 22, 1986
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00912635
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Noonan Kenneth R
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 620 Mountain Ave
Altoona, PA 16602
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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 · 2 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N785, 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 Noonan Kenneth R, an individual, certificate issued July 1, 1987, expires March 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1156 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N785 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Standard J-1 (serial 35, cancelled February 9, 1933). 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 N785: Accident on May 17, 1987 at Ebensburg, PA: no injuries, substantial damage. 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: Noonan VARI-EZE · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for NYC87DGM02 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
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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