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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 6, 2026Russell Madden PIETENPOL
N129RM is a Russell Madden PIETENPOL, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2018. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Graford, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 8, 2017 and expires on September 30, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated December 2, 2018.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Russell Madden
- Model
- PIETENPOL
- Serial number
- 120555
- 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 · Cont Motor C85-12 · 85 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2018
- Transponder code
- A076A4 (octal 50073244)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- September 8, 2017
- Expires
- September 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 17, 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 · December 2, 2018
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01260514
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Madden Russell
- 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
- 721 Dove Ln
Graford, TX 76449-3140
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Connections how N129RM links to the rest of the register
- Russell Madden 1 aircraft on the register
- Continental C85-12 82 aircraft with this engine series · 85 hp
- Graford, TX 46 aircraft registered in this town
- Possum Kingdom Airport · F35
- Texas 29,966 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Continental C85-12 1 airworthiness directives
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N129RM.json.
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The public federal record on N129RM, 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 Madden Russell, an individual, certificate issued September 8, 2017, expires September 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated December 2, 2018, consistent with the 2018 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 120555 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N129RM was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-23-250 (serial 27-7405301, cancelled June 14, 2012). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N129RM. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]
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.
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 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 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 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data