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N81962

Shull John E SHULL STEEN SKYBOLT

N81962 is a Shull John E SHULL STEEN SKYBOLT, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1990. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in El Cajon, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 8, 2009 and expires on July 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated March 5, 1990.

Aircraft

Maker
Shull John E
Model
SHULL STEEN SKYBOLT
Serial number
1
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O&VO-360 SER · 180 hp
Seats
2
Year built
1990
Transponder code
AB2E10 (octal 52627020)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
October 8, 2009
Expires
July 31, 2028
Last FAA action
March 11, 2024
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · March 5, 1990
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
00164601

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Sterling Colleen M Trustee
Type
Individual
Address
15796 Creek Hills Rd
El Cajon, CA 92021-2579

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 2

1949-03-14Aeronca 7AC · Valid registration
—Dehavilland DH 114 HERON 2X · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N81962, 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 Sterling Colleen M Trustee, an individual, certificate issued October 8, 2009, expires July 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated March 5, 1990, consistent with the 1990 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N81962 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Aeronca 7AC (serial 7AC-587, cancelled March 14, 1949); Dehavilland DH 114 HERON 2X (serial 14053, cancelled date not given). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N81962: Accident on April 6, 1984 at Scottsdale, AZ: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.

NTSB records 1

LAX84LA241Accident on April 6, 1984 at Scottsdale, AZ: no injuries, substantial damage.serial on NTSB record: 14053

Aircraft on the NTSB record: De Havilland DH 114 · operated under 091

Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB

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 September 30, 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