Gary W Bettis HARMON ROCKET II
N91GB is a Gary W Bettis HARMON ROCKET II, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2011. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Bakersfield, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 19, 2011 and expires on May 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated January 12, 2012.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Gary W Bettis
- Model
- HARMON ROCKET II
- Serial number
- 064
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming IO-540-C4B5 · 250 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2011
- Kit
- HARMON ROCKET LLC HARMON ROCKET II
- Transponder code
- AC94EA (octal 53112352)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 19, 2011
- Expires
- May 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · January 12, 2012
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00824117
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bettis Gary W
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 7520 Sutters Mill St
Bakersfield, CA 93313-4300
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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 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N91GB, 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 Bettis Gary W, an individual, certificate issued May 19, 2011, expires May 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated January 12, 2012, consistent with the 2011 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 064 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N91GB was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Aerostar International Inc RX 8 (serial RX8-3123, cancelled July 16, 2008). 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 N91GB: Accident on June 17, 2013 at South Lake Tahoe, CA: 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: Gary W Bettis HARMON ROCKET II · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain directional control during landing with a crosswind.
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