Tom A Corley HIGHLANDER
N802TC is a Tom A Corley HIGHLANDER, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2012. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Royston, Georgia. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 28, 2016 and expires on November 30, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated November 9, 2012.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Tom A Corley
- Model
- HIGHLANDER
- Serial number
- JA7-10-08
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Rotax 912S · 100 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2012
- Kit
- JUST AIRCRAFT LLC HIGHLANDER
- Transponder code
- AAEAF7 (octal 52565367)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 28, 2016
- Expires
- November 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 15, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · November 9, 2012
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 01087854
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Smith Barkley W
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 2674 Dove Drake Rd
Royston, GA 30662-6045
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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 · 3 clear
The public federal record on N802TC, 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 Smith Barkley W, an individual, certificate issued November 28, 2016, expires November 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated November 9, 2012, consistent with the 2012 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial JA7-10-08 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N802TC was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Aero Commander 500-B (serial 1015-38, cancelled November 6, 2003). 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 N802TC: Accident on July 8, 1997 at Dallas, TX: serious injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Aero Commander 500-B · operated under 135
The pilot-in-command's failure to follow emergency procedures to reduce drag and maintain best climb airspeed. Factors were the partial loss of engine power due to the cracks in the #1 and #4 cylinders as the result of an unapproved modification of their intake ports, the separation of the magneto lead plate due to its improper installation by the pilot-in-command, the dark night light conditions and the lack of suitable terrain for the forced landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW97LA258 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