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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 4, 2026Grice Hillery W ALLEY CAT 1
N985GC is a Grice Hillery W ALLEY CAT 1, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Omega 1 CORP, a corporation in Middletown, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 13, 2024 and expires on March 31, 2031. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated May 2, 2001.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Grice Hillery W
- Model
- ALLEY CAT 1
- Serial number
- AC007
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · P&W R-985 SERIES · 450 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- ADBE50 (octal 53337120)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- March 13, 2024
- Expires
- March 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- March 13, 2024
- 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 · Amateur builtFAA certificate purpose code 2 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · May 2, 2001
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00783774
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Omega 1 CORP
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 1232 Choptank Rd
Middletown, DE 19709-9038
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N985GC links to the rest of the register
- Grice Hillery W 1 aircraft on the register
- Pratt & Whitney R-985 series 1,593 aircraft with this engine series · 450 hp
- Omega 1 CORP 7 aircraft in the fleet
- Middletown, DE 347 aircraft registered in this town
- Summit Airport · EVY
- Delaware 10,970 aircraft registered
- Failure reports on the Pratt & Whitney R-985 series 80 reports since 1995
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N985GC.json.
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The public federal record on N985GC, 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 Omega 1 CORP, a corporation, certificate issued March 13, 2024, expires March 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial AC007 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N985GC 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 N985GC: Accident on May 19, 2007 at Fairhope, AL: serious injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Hillery W. Grice Alley Cat 1 · operated under 091
The failure of the pilot-in-command to maintain terrain clearance while completing a loop at an airshow, resulting in impact with the runway.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 4, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data