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N9026S

Stiles Randall Jay SPARROW HAWK

N9026S is a Stiles Randall Jay SPARROW HAWK, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2005. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Fort Mill, South Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 16, 2021 and expires on December 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated May 17, 2005.

Aircraft

Maker
Stiles Randall Jay
Model
SPARROW HAWK
Serial number
SH20040001K
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Subaru ALL MDLS A/B · 400 hp
Seats
2
Year built
2005
Kit
AMERICAN AUTOGYRO INC SPARROWHAWK
Transponder code
AC79D5 (octal 53074725)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
December 16, 2021
Expires
December 31, 2028
Last FAA action
July 1, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · May 17, 2005
FAA region
Southern
FAA record id
00097259

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Pettus Gary A
Type
Individual
Address
10954 Old Pettus Pl
Fort Mill, SC 29707-9189

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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 2

2000-11-30Bell 412EP · exported to Macedonia · Valid registration
1977-01-25Beech B-55 · Valid registration

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N9026S, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Pettus Gary A, an individual, certificate issued December 16, 2021, expires December 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated May 17, 2005, consistent with the 2005 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial SH20040001K for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N9026S was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Bell 412EP (serial 36260, cancelled November 30, 2000); Beech B-55 (serial TC-965, cancelled January 25, 1977). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N9026S. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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