Van Eaton Leonard W COZY
N83MT is a Van Eaton Leonard W COZY, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1996. It has 3 seats. It is registered to an individual in Morton Grove, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 18, 2023 and expires on June 30, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated July 8, 1996.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Van Eaton Leonard W
- Model
- COZY
- Serial number
- 387
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1996
- Transponder code
- AB5726 (octal 52653446)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 18, 2023
- Expires
- June 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- June 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · July 8, 1996
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00325472
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Applebaum Steven
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 8922 Parkside Ave
Morton Grove, IL 60053-2548
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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 N83MT, 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 Applebaum Steven, an individual, certificate issued June 18, 2023, expires June 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated July 8, 1996, consistent with the 1996 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 387 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N83MT was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Bell 206A (serial 355, cancelled December 9, 1991). 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 N83MT: Incident on May 11, 2004 at Smi-28: fatal (1 fatal). 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: Bell 206L-1 · operated under 135
Incapacitation of the pilot due to a heart attack.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW04IA147 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