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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 10, 2026Obarr-Curtis Mike CM-1
N12309 is an Obarr-Curtis Mike CM-1, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1969. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Trophy Club, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 21, 1992 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated May 5, 1970.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Obarr-Curtis Mike
- Model
- CM-1
- Serial number
- 1
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Franklin 4AC150-A · 60 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1969
- Cruising speed
- 67 mph
- Transponder code
- A06151 (octal 50060521)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- August 21, 1992
- Expires
- January 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 14, 2023
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Amateur builtFAA certificate purpose code 2 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · May 5, 1970
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00750440
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Mcdonald James e
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 4 Ross Court
Trophy Club, TX 76262
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N12309 links to the rest of the register
- Obarr-Curtis Mike 1 aircraft on the register
- Franklin 4AC150-A 12 aircraft with this engine series · 60 hp
- Trophy Club, TX 25 aircraft registered in this town
- Texas 29,976 aircraft registered
- Failure reports on the Franklin 4AC150-A 1 reports since 1995
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N12309.json.
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The public federal record on N12309, 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.
Valid registration to Mcdonald James e, an individual, certificate issued August 21, 1992, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated May 5, 1970, consistent with the 1969 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N12309 according to the deregistered file. [2]
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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N12309. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]
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AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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.
Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 10, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data