Single-engine piston

N256AS

2025 Homebuilt Alto NG

Registered No accidents on file
Built
2025
Serial
DF227
Class
Single-engine piston
Engines
Rotax 912ULS2
Status
Current as of October 2026
Registered owner
Fourth Man in the Fire LLC (LLC)
Based
Sheridan, WY
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Registration record

N256AS on the FAA register

Type
2025 Homebuilt Alto NG
Serial
DF227
Engines
Rotax 912ULS2
Registered owner
Fourth Man in the Fire LLC
Sheridan, WY
Certificate issued
2025-07-15
Airworthiness date
2025-03-17
Registration expires
2032-07-31
Airworthiness class
Light sport · airplane
Mode S (hex)
A26DD9
Mode S (octal)
50466731
Seats (type)
2
Weight class
up to 12,499 lb
Status
Current as of October 2026
Registry history

Timeline

  • 2032-07-31
    Registration expires (renewal due).
  • 2025-07-15
    Certificate of registration issued as N256AS to the current registrant.
  • 2025-03-17
    Airworthiness date on the current FAA record (light sport category (airplane)).
  • 2018-01-12
    N256AS previously assigned to a Homebuilt H-3 Pegasus (s/n 9006); cancelled.
  • 1995-11-15
    N256AS previously assigned to a Embraer EMB-120 (s/n 120122); cancelled.
Overview

About N256AS

N256AS is a 2025 Homebuilt Alto NG, serial number DF227. The FAA register lists Fourth Man in the Fire LLC as the registrant in Sheridan, Wyoming. The current certificate of registration was issued on July 15, 2025 and expires on July 31, 2032.

The FAA aircraft reference file describes the type as a single-engine piston, one Rotax 912ULS2 engine and 2 seats. Its airworthiness certificate is light sport category (airplane), dated March 17, 2025.

No NTSB accident or incident reports and no FAA preliminary notices are on file for this airframe as N256AS. 1 earlier record involves a different aircraft that carried the same N-number.

Safety record

Accident & incident history

1995-08-21 Accident · Carrollton, GA Damage: Destroyed Fatal injury NTSB · DCA95MA054
Reported aircraft: Embraer EMB-120RT — a different aircraft that carried the N256AS registration before this airframe.
Probable cause: the in-flight fatigue fracture and separation of a propeller blade resulting in distortion of the left engine nacelle, causing excessive drag, loss of wing lift, and reduced directional control of the airplane. The fracture was caused by a fatigue crack from multiple corrosion pits that were not discovered by Hamilton Standard because of inadequate and ineffective corporate inspection and repair techniques, training, documentation, and communications. Contributing to the accident was Hamilton Standard's and FAA's failure to require recurrent on-wing ultrasonic inspections of the affected propellers. Contributing to the severity of the accident was the overcast cloud ceiling at the…

Sources: NTSB aviation accident database and CAROL case system, FAA preliminary accident & incident notices. Search accident records

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Data: FAA Aircraft Registry (October 2026), including deregistered aircraft; NTSB and FAA accident data; fyiAero listing history. Individual owners' names are shown to signed-in users and street addresses are never shown. Type figures are published specifications, not this aircraft's.