Sorensen Danny S BF9-2
N81973 is a Sorensen Danny S BF9-2, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2008. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Bountiful, Utah. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 11, 2007 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated October 24, 2008.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Sorensen Danny S
- Model
- BF9-2
- Serial number
- 24601-001
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Vedeneyev M14P · 350 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2008
- Transponder code
- AB2E34 (octal 52627064)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 11, 2007
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- August 6, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · October 24, 2008
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00329989
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sorensen Danny S
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 258 W 1300 N
Bountiful, UT 84010-6735 - Co-owners
- Sorensen Allyn H
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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
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The public federal record on N81973, 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 Sorensen Danny S, a co-owned, certificate issued April 11, 2007, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated October 24, 2008, consistent with the 2008 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 24601-001 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N81973 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Aeronca 7AC (serial 7AC598, cancelled February 1, 2007). 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 N81973: Accident on May 31, 2018 at Evanston, WY: 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: Sorensen Danny S BF9 2 · operated under 091
The pilot’s failure to fuel the biplane’s main fuel tank before the flight and his inadequate preflight inspection, during which he did not verify the fuel quantity, which resulted in fuel exhaustion
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for GAA18CA330 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