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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 13, 2026Hughes Aero Corp PREDATOR "C"
N9550N is a Hughes Aero Corp PREDATOR "C", a powered parachute with a two-stroke engine, built in 2008. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in North Little Rock, Arkansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 4, 2023 and expires on September 30, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated March 23, 2008.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Hughes Aero Corp
- Model
- PREDATOR "C" · all PREDATOR "C"s and related versions
- Serial number
- PC010853P401
- Type
- Powered parachuteFAA type of aircraft code 8 (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 582SER · 65 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas; the engine's maker also approves mogas, UL91, UL94
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2008
- Transponder code
- AD499F (octal 53244637)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- September 4, 2023
- Expires
- September 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- September 4, 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 · March 23, 2008
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00465779
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Wooding Josh
- 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
- 1905 Osceola Dr
North Little Rock, AR 72116-4532
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N9550N links to the rest of the register
- Hughes Aero Corp PREDATOR "C" 5 registered
- Hughes Aero Corp 16 aircraft on the register
- Rotax 582 series 1,193 aircraft with this engine series · 65 hp
- North Little Rock, AR 65 aircraft registered in this town
- North Little Rock Municipal · ORK
- Arkansas 3,493 aircraft registered
- Failure reports on the Rotax 582 series 1 reports since 1995
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N9550N.json.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear
The public federal record on N9550N, 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 Wooding Josh, an individual, certificate issued September 4, 2023, expires September 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated March 23, 2008, consistent with the 2008 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial PC010853P401 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N9550N according to the deregistered file. [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 N9550N. 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 13, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 13, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 13, 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 13, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data