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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026Air Creation GTE
N971EW is an Air Creation GTE, a weight-shift aircraft with a two-stroke engine, built in 1999. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Dewey, Arizona. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 15, 2016 and expires on November 30, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated April 26, 2012.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Air Creation
- Model
- GTE · all GTEs and related versions
- Built of
- aluminium tube and fabricAn ultralight-style airframe: bolted aluminium tubing under sailcloth or fabric, the construction of weight-shift trikes and the lightest two-seaters. A weight-shift trike: an aluminium-tube carriage under a sailcloth wing. This is how the Air Creation GTE family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- T02055
- Type
- Weight-shift controlFAA type of aircraft code 7 (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
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1999
- Transponder code
- AD87D5 (octal 53303725)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- November 15, 2016
- Expires
- November 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 15, 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 · April 26, 2012
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00414639
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Wilson Jimmy D
- Type
- Co-ownedFAA type of owner code 4 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 1050 N Ambassador Rd
Dewey, AZ 86327-7530 - Co-owners
- Wilson Paul L
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N971EW links to the rest of the register
- Air Creation GTE 13 registered
- Air Creation 114 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium tube and fabric · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Rotax 582 series 1,192 aircraft with this engine series · 65 hp
- Dewey, AZ 14 aircraft registered in this town
- Arizona 8,410 aircraft registered
- Failure reports on the Rotax 582 series 1 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N971EW, 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 Wilson Jimmy D, a co-owned, certificate issued November 15, 2016, expires November 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 26, 2012, 13 years after the 1999 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial T02055 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N971EW 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 N971EW. 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 October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data