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N1517S

Culver Robert J SONEX

Valid Texas

N1517S is a Culver Robert J SONEX, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2015. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Frankston, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 18, 2015 and expires on March 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated October 8, 2015.

Aircraft

Maker
Culver Robert J
Model
SONEX
Serial number
SNX1517
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Aeroconver AEROVEE · 80 hp
Seats
2
Year built
2015
Kit
SONEX AIRCRAFT LLC SONEX
Transponder code
A0D144 (octal 50150504)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
March 18, 2015
Expires
March 31, 2028
Last FAA action
July 3, 2024
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · October 8, 2015
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
01174211

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Culver Robert J
Type
Individual
Address
11619 Lazy 8 Trl
Frankston, TX 75763

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 2

2006-08-09Schweizer 269C-1 · exported to China Peoples Rep · Valid, assigned to the manufacturer under its dealer certificate
2002-02-06Balloon Works FIREFLY 7-B · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office

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