Gillespie/Sears Q-2
N85BJ is a Gillespie/Sears Q-2, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Logan, Utah. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 30, 2020 and expires on September 30, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated October 9, 2008.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Gillespie/Sears
- Model
- Q-2
- Serial number
- 2438
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Revmaster 2100 · 65 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- ABA521 (octal 52722441)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 30, 2020
- Expires
- September 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 17, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · October 9, 2008
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00172025
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Kidd Robert L
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 444 E 700 S
Logan, UT 84321-5534
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N85BJ, 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 Kidd Robert L, an individual, certificate issued September 30, 2020, expires September 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2438 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N85BJ 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]
1 NTSB record under N85BJ: Accident on July 11, 2020 at Preston, ID: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Quickie Q2 · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain airplane control during takeoff in high density altitude conditions, which resulted in a collision with terrain. Contributing to the accident was the pilot's failure to accomplish performance calculations for the atmospheric conditions.
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- 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