Carpenter Gregory K RAF-2000
N9071H is a Carpenter Gregory K RAF-2000, a rotorcraft with a piston engine (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1995. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Bradenton, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 15, 2012 and expires on February 29, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated July 30, 1997.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Carpenter Gregory K
- Model
- RAF-2000
- Serial number
- H2-95-6-158
- Type
- Rotorcraft
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Subaru ALL MDLS A/B · 400 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1995
- Transponder code
- AC8BB0 (octal 53105660)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 15, 2012
- Expires
- February 29, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 21, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · July 30, 1997
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00315552
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Spears Ronald S
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1214 33Rd Ave W
Bradenton, FL 34205-6221
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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
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The public federal record on N9071H, 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 Spears Ronald S, an individual, certificate issued February 15, 2012, expires February 29, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated July 30, 1997, consistent with the 1995 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial H2-95-6-158 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N9071H was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Goodyear S-30 (serial P1, cancelled September 20, 1991); Navy BALLOON TRAININGSTD (serial 813, cancelled July 7, 1952). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N9071H: Accident on December 24, 2005 at Wintersville, OH: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Carpenter RAF 2000 · operated under 091
The pilot not maintaining aircraft control during the landing. A factor was the reported wind gust.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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
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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