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N1039W

Hutton Joe R-80 TIGER MOTH

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesNebraska

N1039W is a Hutton Joe R-80 TIGER MOTH, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2006. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Anselmo, Nebraska. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 13, 2021 and expires on May 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated February 4, 2006.

Aircraft

Maker
Hutton Joe
Model
R-80 TIGER MOTH
Serial number
TM-28
Type
Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). All codes
Power
Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). All codes, 1 motor
Seats
2
Year built
2006
Kit
FISHER FLYING PRODUCTS R-80 TIGER MOTH
Transponder code
A01381 (octal 50011601)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). All codes
Certificate issued
May 13, 2021
Expires
May 31, 2028
Last FAA action
May 12, 2023
Airworthiness
ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · Amateur builtFAA certificate purpose code 2 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · February 4, 2006
FAA region
CentralFAA region code 3 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00207549

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Liewer Timothy M
Type
IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). All codes
Address
81061 Road 430
Anselmo, NE 68813-7805

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

1988-12-05Convair T-29A · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office
1973-04-27Beech A36 · exported to Australia · Valid registration

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N1039W, read the way a buyer, lender or insurer reads it: FAA registration, prior tail numbers keyed on the serial number, reuse of the tail number, recent registry filings, and the NTSB accident record under this and every earlier registration.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Liewer Timothy M, an individual, certificate issued May 13, 2021, expires May 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated February 4, 2006, consistent with the 2006 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial TM-28 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N1039W was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Convair T-29A (serial 491925, cancelled December 5, 1988); Beech A36 (serial E-412, cancelled April 27, 1973). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

No bills of sale, loans or releases have reached the registry in recent weeks. The index covers only recent filings; older liens are in the records file. [3]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N1039W. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

These live in the FAA aircraft records file (every document ever filed against the aircraft) and, for larger aircraft, the International Registry. Part of the full report.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search

This automated check reads the public federal record. Nothing here is a legal opinion, an appraisal or a statement about the aircraft's condition; a CLEAR line is a statement about the searched record, not the aircraft.

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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data