Hillenburg HU-GO CRAFT
N8GH is a Hillenburg HU-GO CRAFT, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1979. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Jefferson, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 10, 1998 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated May 31, 1979.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Hillenburg
- Model
- HU-GO CRAFT
- Serial number
- 3
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor A&C65 SERIES · 65 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1979
- Cruising speed
- 85 mph
- Transponder code
- AADDC9 (octal 52556711)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 10, 1998
- Expires
- April 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 5, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · May 31, 1979
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00290782
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Hillenburg Gary W
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 117 Sandy Flats Dr
Jefferson, NC 28640-8936
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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 N8GH, 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 Hillenburg Gary W, an individual, certificate issued September 10, 1998, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated May 31, 1979, consistent with the 1979 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 3 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N8GH 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 N8GH. 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 September 30, 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