Mikinka Steve STEVES CLOUD TWISTER
N9HK is a Mikinka Steve STEVES CLOUD TWISTER, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2011. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Montague, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 12, 2025 and expires on June 30, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated August 4, 2011.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Mikinka Steve
- Model
- STEVES CLOUD TWISTER
- Serial number
- 82845
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Lycoming O-360-B1A · 168 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2011
- Kit
- VANS AIRCRAFT INC RV-8
- Transponder code
- AC6B33 (octal 53065463)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 12, 2025
- Expires
- June 30, 2032
- Last FAA action
- June 12, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · August 4, 2011
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 01070818
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Epperly Scott C
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 9420 Mayten Rd
Montague, CA 96064-9606
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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 N9HK, 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 Epperly Scott C, an individual, certificate issued June 12, 2025, expires June 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated August 4, 2011, consistent with the 2011 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 82845 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N9HK 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 N9HK: Accident on July 21, 2001 at Etowah, TN: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Schleicher ASW-20C · operated under 091
The loss of thermal lift which resulted in a forced landing and subsequent in-flight collision with static wires.
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