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N117DH

Hudson David MERLIN

Valid Tennessee

N117DH is a Hudson David MERLIN, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Collierville, Tennessee. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 8, 2025 and expires on May 31, 2032. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.

Aircraft

Maker
Hudson David
Model
MERLIN
Serial number
96049R8
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
Seats
2
Year built
Not given
Transponder code
A04687 (octal 50043207)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
May 8, 2025
Expires
May 31, 2032
Last FAA action
October 10, 2025
Airworthiness
None on file
FAA region
Central
FAA record id
00115599

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Gardner Ryan
Type
Individual
Address
1169 Braywind Dr
Collierville, TN 38017-3678

Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.

Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Earlier use of this number 1

1999-03-04Cessna 195 · exported to Denmark · Valid registration

Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, September 25, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data