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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 12, 2026Gibbo Gear BB447 MANTA 12 WING
N9258A is a Gibbo Gear BB447 MANTA 12 WING, a weight-shift aircraft with a two-stroke engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Mcqueeney, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 17, 2018 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated September 17, 2007.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Gibbo Gear
- Model
- BB447 MANTA 12 WING
- Serial number
- 2007-0258
- Type
- Weight-shift controlFAA type of aircraft code 7 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Two-cycle pistonFAA type of engine code 7 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Rotax 447 · 40 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas; the engine's maker also approves mogas, UL91, UL94
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- ACD42E (octal 53152056)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- January 17, 2018
- Expires
- January 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 14, 2023
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Registered before Jan 31, 2008FAA certificate purpose code 8A (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · September 17, 2007
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00375209
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Froehlich Joel M
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- PO Box 1131
Mcqueeney, TX 78123-1131
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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
Connections how N9258A links to the rest of the register
- Gibbo Gear 4 aircraft on the register
- Rotax 447 135 aircraft with this engine series · 40 hp
- Mcqueeney, TX 3 aircraft registered in this town
- Texas 29,986 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N9258A.json.
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The public federal record on N9258A, 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 Froehlich Joel M, an individual, certificate issued January 17, 2018, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2007-0258 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N9258A was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Piper PA-28-161 (serial 288616030, cancelled April 21, 1989); Cessna 170B (serial 19019, cancelled February 24, 1971). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N9258A. 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 November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 12, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data