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N15EM

Maurer STARDUSTER TOO SA-30

N15EM is a Maurer STARDUSTER TOO SA-30, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1972. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Etna, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 27, 2023 and expires on September 30, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated December 13, 2017.

Aircraft

Maker
Maurer
Model
STARDUSTER TOO SA-30
Serial number
207
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O-320-A · 115 hp
Seats
2
Year built
1972
Cruising speed
105 mph
Transponder code
A0C846 (octal 50144106)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
September 27, 2023
Expires
September 30, 2030
Last FAA action
September 27, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · December 13, 2017
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
00580835

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Branson Tristan
Type
Individual
Address
PO Box 356
Etna, CA 96027-0356

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

2008-10-17Cessna P337H · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office
1980-05-08Cessna 337D · Valid registration

Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear

The public federal record on N15EM, 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 Branson Tristan, an individual, certificate issued September 27, 2023, expires September 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated December 13, 2017, 45 years after the 1972 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 207 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N15EM was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna P337H (serial P3370317, cancelled October 17, 2008); Cessna 337D (serial 337-1137, cancelled May 8, 1980). 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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N15EM: Accident on June 15, 2008 at Cape Elizabeth, ME: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal). Details below. [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.

NTSB records 1

NYC08FA215Accident on June 15, 2008 at Cape Elizabeth, ME: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal).serial on NTSB record: P3370317

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna P337H · operated under 091

The pilot's improper decision to continue the flight in instrument meteorological conditions after experiencing an attitude indicator malfunction.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for NYC08FA215 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

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 August 27, 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, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data