{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"1979-04-06","airworthiness_ops":"Amateur built","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2025-03-11","city":"OCALA","country_code":"US","county_code":"083","cruise_speed_mph":105,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"42338","engine_horsepower":235,"engine_maker":"LYCOMING","engine_model":"O-540-B2C5","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2032-03-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2025-03-11","maker":"Thacker","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"THACKER","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"8660220","mode_s_code":"50133777","mode_s_hex":"A0B7FF","model":"STARDUSTER TOO SA300","n_number":"N14525","name":"TROPEANO JOSEPH P","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"LAKE WALES","damage":"SUBS","date":"1997-05-02","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"MIA97LA157","probable_cause":"failure of the tail wheel to lock in the centered detent during the beginning of the takeoff roll, which resulted in the pilot being unable to maintain directional control and the aircraft drifting off the runway and nosing over in the soft ground.","registration":"N14525","state":"FL","summary":"Accident on May 2, 1997 at Lake Wales, FL: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N14525 is a Thacker STARDUSTER TOO SA300, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1977. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Ocala, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 11, 2025 and expires on March 31, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated April 6, 1979.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Tropeano Joseph P, an individual, certificate issued March 11, 2025, expires March 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated April 6, 1979, consistent with the 1977 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 487 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N14525 according to the deregistered file.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"1 NTSB record under N14525: Accident on May 2, 1997 at Lake Wales, FL: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Title chain, liens and 337 forms","source":null,"status":"PENDING"},{"finding":"AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.","item":"Airworthiness directives and utilization","source":null,"status":"PENDING"}],"records_check_sources":[{"n":1,"name":"FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":2,"name":"FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download)","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":3,"name":"FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":4,"name":"NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL)","url":"https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search"}],"region":"Southern","region_code":"7","registrant_type":"Individual","registrant_type_code":"1","seats":2,"serial_number":"487","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"FL","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"9087 SE 72ND AVE","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00501740","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N14525","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1977,"zip":"344729202"}