Norman C Y SMITH DSA1
N8505G is a Norman C Y SMITH DSA1, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1982. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Effingham, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 27, 2024 and expires on January 31, 2031. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated June 1, 1983.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Norman C Y
- Model
- SMITH DSA1
- Serial number
- THA01
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-290 SERIES · 140 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1982
- Transponder code
- ABAA66 (octal 52725146)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 27, 2024
- Expires
- January 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- January 27, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · June 1, 1983
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00792681
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bailey John
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 709 E Washington Ave
Effingham, IL 62401-3446
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N8505G, 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 Bailey John, an individual, certificate issued January 27, 2024, expires January 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated June 1, 1983, consistent with the 1982 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial THA01 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N8505G 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 N8505G. 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 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
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