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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 5, 2026Skytrails Lsa PREDATOR
N81UP is a Skytrails Lsa PREDATOR, a powered parachute with a four-stroke engine, built in 2010. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Houston, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 12, 2012 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for operating light-sport kit-built, dated December 3, 2010.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Skytrails Lsa
- Model
- PREDATOR · all PREDATORs and related versions
- Built of
- aluminium tube and fabricAn ultralight-style airframe: bolted aluminium tubing under sailcloth or fabric, the construction of weight-shift trikes and the lightest two-seaters. An ultralight-style airframe: bolted aluminium tubing under sailcloth. This is how the Skytrails Lsa PREDATOR family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- PC00023912P41
- Type
- Powered parachuteFAA type of aircraft code 8 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Four-cycle pistonFAA type of engine code 8 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Rotax 582SER · 65 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas; the engine's maker also approves mogas, UL91, UL94
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2010
- Transponder code
- AB08D3 (octal 52604323)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- January 12, 2012
- Expires
- January 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 14, 2023
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Operating light-sport kit-builtFAA certificate purpose code 8B (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · December 3, 2010
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01052790
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Kanocz Kathy A
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 12502 Shepherds Ridge Dr
Houston, TX 77077-2922
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N81UP links to the rest of the register
- Skytrails Lsa PREDATOR 11 registered
- Skytrails Lsa 14 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium tube and fabric · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Rotax 582 series 1,193 aircraft with this engine series · 65 hp
- Houston, TX 1,182 aircraft registered in this town
- Conroe/North Houston Regional · CXO
- David Wayne Hooks Memorial · DWH
- Ellington Airport · EFD
- George Bush Intcntl/Houston Airport · IAH
- 8 more landing places in town
- Texas 29,958 aircraft registered
- Failure reports on the Rotax 582 series 1 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N81UP, 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 Kanocz Kathy A, an individual, certificate issued January 12, 2012, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for operating light-sport kit-built, dated December 3, 2010, consistent with the 2010 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial PC00023912P41 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N81UP according to the deregistered file. [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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N81UP. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 5, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data