Mullins David J Jr GLASTAR
N8488 is a Mullins David J Jr GLASTAR, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2006. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Chester, Iowa. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 11, 2021 and expires on December 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated June 3, 2006.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Mullins David J Jr
- Model
- GLASTAR
- Serial number
- 5434
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2006
- Kit
- STODDARD HAMILTON GLASTAR
- Transponder code
- ABA101 (octal 52720401)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 11, 2021
- Expires
- December 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- July 1, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · June 3, 2006
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00218189
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Mckenna Glen R
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 6241 25Th St
Chester, IA 52134-8531
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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 N8488, 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 Mckenna Glen R, an individual, certificate issued December 11, 2021, expires December 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated June 3, 2006, consistent with the 2006 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 5434 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N8488 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Parks Aircraft Inc P-2 (serial 104, cancelled March 30, 1948). 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 N8488: Accident on April 11, 2023 at Cal-Nev-Ari, NV: fatal, substantial damage (2 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: Mullins David J JR GLASTAR · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain sufficient altitude for undetermined reasons while maneuvering to land in dark night conditions, which resulted in collision with terrain.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR23FA153 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