Halsted Gordon N FLIGHTSTAR PIONEER
N8003U is a Halsted Gordon N FLIGHTSTAR PIONEER, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a two-stroke engine, built in 1983. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Nampa, Idaho. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 4, 2010 and expires on November 30, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated April 20, 2007.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Halsted Gordon N
- Model
- FLIGHTSTAR PIONEER
- Serial number
- 519
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Two-cycle piston, 1 motor
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1983
- Transponder code
- AAE4B1 (octal 52562261)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 4, 2010
- Expires
- November 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 15, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Registered before Jan 31, 2008 · April 20, 2007
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00282419
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Tharp Thomas J
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 3718 E Man O War Dr
Nampa, ID 83686-1314
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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 · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N8003U, 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 Tharp Thomas J, an individual, certificate issued November 4, 2010, expires November 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 20, 2007, 24 years after the 1983 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 519 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N8003U was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Robinson Helicopter R22 BETA (serial 0924, cancelled January 17, 1990). 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 N8003U: Accident on June 19, 2007 at Nampa, ID: minor 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: Halsted Flightstar Pioneer · operated under 091
The failure (fracture) of the crankshaft of the non-certificated two-cycle engine during cruise flight. Factors include a ditch running through the field in which the pilot executed his engine-out forced landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for SEA07LA173 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