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N942DF, a Pitman Edgar D Dba Pitman Air DRAGONFLY 582
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N942DF

Pitman Edgar D Dba Pitman Air DRAGONFLY 582

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesFlorida

N942DF is a Pitman Edgar D Dba Pitman Air DRAGONFLY 582, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a two-stroke engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Groveland, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 15, 2021 and expires on May 31, 2028. It holds a light sport airworthiness certificate for airplane, dated February 26, 2014.

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Aircraft

Maker
Pitman Edgar D Dba Pitman Air
Model
DRAGONFLY 582
Serial number
PA-582-112
Type
Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (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 582UL · 65 hp
Seats
2
Year built
Not given
Transponder code
AD14E7 (octal 53212347)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
May 15, 2021
Expires
May 31, 2028
Last FAA action
May 12, 2023
Airworthiness
Light sportFAA airworthiness class code 9 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · AirplaneFAA certificate purpose code A (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · February 26, 2014
FAA region
SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
01104142

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Bailey Robert e
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
6548 Groveland Airport Rd
Groveland, FL 34736-9680

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Connections how N942DF links to the rest of the register

Design
Engine
  • Rotax 582UL 132 aircraft with this engine series · 65 hp
Place
  • Groveland, FL 44 aircraft registered in this town
  • Florida 21,712 aircraft registered

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The public federal record on N942DF, 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 Bailey Robert e, an individual, certificate issued May 15, 2021, expires May 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

NOTEAirworthiness certificate

Light sport certificate for airplane; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial PA-582-112 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N942DF according to the deregistered file. [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 N942DF. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

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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 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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, October 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data