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N9551N

Hughes Aero PREDATOR C

Valid Texas

N9551N is a Hughes Aero PREDATOR C, a powered parachute with a two-stroke engine, built in 2008. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Houston, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 24, 2011 and expires on May 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated April 19, 2009.

Aircraft

Maker
Hughes Aero
Model
PREDATOR C
Serial number
PC020853W405
Type
Powered parachute
Power
Two-cycle piston, 1 motor
Seats
2
Year built
2008
Transponder code
AD49C2 (octal 53244702)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
May 24, 2011
Expires
May 31, 2027
Last FAA action
January 22, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Registered before Jan 31, 2008 · April 19, 2009
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
00465799

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Debarbieris Carl
Type
Individual
Address
10807 Cedar Creek Dr
Houston, TX 77042-2307

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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 N9551N, 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 Debarbieris Carl, an individual, certificate issued May 24, 2011, expires May 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated April 19, 2009, consistent with the 2008 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial PC020853W405 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N9551N 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 N9551N. 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 August 27, 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