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N2053H

Hughes Aero Corp PREDATOR

Valid Texas

N2053H is a Hughes Aero Corp PREDATOR, a powered parachute with a two-stroke engine, built in 2007. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Bay City, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 14, 2007 and expires on December 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated August 5, 2007.

Aircraft

Maker
Hughes Aero Corp
Model
PREDATOR
Serial number
P040553WA
Type
Powered parachute
Power
Two-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 582E · 65 hp
Seats
2
Year built
2007
Transponder code
A1A75F (octal 50323537)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
March 14, 2007
Expires
December 31, 2029
Last FAA action
September 22, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Registered before Jan 31, 2008 · August 5, 2007
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
00315909

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Cowart Ron W
Type
Individual
Address
5 Valhalla Dr
Bay City, TX 77414-7356

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 3

2004-06-03Sikorsky S-76C · exported to Brazil · Valid registration
1990-03-19Balloon Works FIREFLY 6B · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office
1955-11-17Engineering & Research 415-C · Valid registration

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