Gerald Nelson NELSON SPECIAL
N873YD is a Gerald Nelson NELSON SPECIAL, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2021. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Texarkana, Arkansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 21, 2019 and expires on August 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated August 16, 2021.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Gerald Nelson
- Model
- NELSON SPECIAL
- Serial number
- 1931
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O-290-D · 130 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2021
- Transponder code
- AC03A5 (octal 53001645)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 21, 2019
- Expires
- August 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 25, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · August 16, 2021
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 01300265
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Nelson Gerald R
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 109 Sugar Ridge Ln
Texarkana, AR 71854-9208
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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 N873YD, 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 Nelson Gerald R, an individual, certificate issued August 21, 2019, expires August 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated August 16, 2021, consistent with the 2021 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1931 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N873YD 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 N873YD: Accident on May 29, 2025 at Hope, AR: minor injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Nelson Special · operated under 091
The pilot’s failure to maintain airplane control during the landing roll.
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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