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N954BH

Hawley Brad J LITTLE WING 5

N954BH is a Hawley Brad J LITTLE WING 5, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2015. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Atascadero, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 21, 2023 and expires on February 28, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated June 20, 2016.

Aircraft

Maker
Hawley Brad J
Model
LITTLE WING 5
Serial number
LW-5-3
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Yamaha ALL MDLS A/B
Seats
2
Year built
2015
Transponder code
AD43A4 (octal 53241644)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
February 21, 2023
Expires
February 28, 2030
Last FAA action
February 21, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · June 20, 2016
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
01205515

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Gearhart Richard H
Type
Individual
Address
9460 Asuncion Rd
Atascadero, CA 93422-6502

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Documents on file 0

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

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N954BH, 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 Gearhart Richard H, an individual, certificate issued February 21, 2023, expires February 28, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated June 20, 2016, consistent with the 2015 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial LW-5-3 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N954BH 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 N954BH. 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