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N972HP

Boeing/Hawkins And Powers HP-B-377

Valid Wyoming

N972HP is a Boeing/Hawkins And Powers HP-B-377, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine. It has 3 seats. It is registered to an individual in Riverton, Wyoming. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 17, 2017 and expires on August 31, 2027. It holds a special flight permit airworthiness certificate for ferry flight for repairs, alterations, maintenance or storage, dated July 15, 1991.

Aircraft

Maker
Boeing/Hawkins And Powers
Model
HP-B-377
Serial number
53-350
Type
Fixed-wing, multi-engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 4 motors · P&W R-4360 · 3250 hp
Seats
3
Year built
Not given
Transponder code
AD8BD0 (octal 53305720)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
August 17, 2017
Expires
August 31, 2027
Last FAA action
March 10, 2023
Airworthiness
Special flight permit · Ferry flight for repairs, alterations, maintenance or storage · July 15, 1991
FAA region
Northwest Mountain
FAA record id
00540613

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Sheppard Harold JR DBA
Type
Individual
Address
39 Burma Rd
Riverton, WY 82501-8974
Co-owners
Sheppard Trucking

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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 · 4 clear

The public federal record on N972HP, 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 Sheppard Harold JR DBA, an individual, certificate issued August 17, 2017, expires August 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

NOTEAirworthiness certificate

Special flight permit certificate for ferry flight for repairs, alterations, maintenance or storage; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 53-350 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N972HP 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 N972HP. 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