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N51BA

Ralph Knight ELITE

N51BA is a Ralph Knight ELITE, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Davidson Brent V, a partnership in San Francisco, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 2, 2021 and expires on March 31, 2028. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.

Aircraft

Maker
Ralph Knight
Model
ELITE
Serial number
E657
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
Seats
2
Year built
Not given
Transponder code
A65F30 (octal 51457460)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
March 2, 2021
Expires
March 31, 2028
Last FAA action
April 28, 2023
Airworthiness
None on file
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
01334206

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Davidson Brent V
Type
Partnership
Address
542A Presidio Blvd
San Francisco, CA 94129-1402
Co-owners
Lewis Ace E

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

1984-02-25Bates P51-D-75 · Valid registration

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