Kretchmer Daniel R HIGHLANDER
N957DK is a Kretchmer Daniel R HIGHLANDER, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2015. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Melcap LLC, an LLC in Fort Worth, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 22, 2025 and expires on August 31, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated April 27, 2015.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Kretchmer Daniel R
- Model
- HIGHLANDER
- Serial number
- JA268-06-12
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 912ULS SERIES · 100 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2015
- Kit
- JUST AIRCRAFT LLC HIGHLANDER
- Transponder code
- AD4EFD (octal 53247375)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 22, 2025
- Expires
- August 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- August 22, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · April 27, 2015
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 01172181
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Melcap LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 9808 Harbour View Ln
Fort Worth, TX 76179-3811
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N957DK, 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 Melcap LLC, an LLC, certificate issued August 22, 2025, expires August 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated April 27, 2015, consistent with the 2015 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial JA268-06-12 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N957DK 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]
1 NTSB record under N957DK: Accident on November 27, 2025 at Brazos, TX: serious injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Just Highlander · operated under 091
The pilot’s failure to maintain clearance from power lines during low-level maneuvering along a river.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data