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N565D

David Melby/Joseph Donahue CAVALIER 102.5

Pending Ohio

N565D is a David Melby/Joseph Donahue CAVALIER 102.5, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2021. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Kirtland, Ohio. The FAA lists the registration as "registration pending". It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated September 14, 2022.

Aircraft

Maker
David Melby/Joseph Donahue
Model
CAVALIER 102.5
Serial number
SA102.5-075LF-2
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor O-200A · 100 hp
Seats
2
Year built
2021
Transponder code
A739C8 (octal 51634710)

Registration

Status
Registration pending
Certificate issued
—
Expires
—
Last FAA action
November 19, 2025
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · September 14, 2022
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
01071864

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Registration Pending
Type
Individual
Address
7685 Hidden Valley Dr
Kirtland, OH 44094-5190

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

1974-08-05Beech D18S · Valid registration

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