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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026Cosmos BISON
N1689 is a Cosmos BISON, a weight-shift aircraft with a two-stroke engine, built in 2002. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Battle Ground, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 21, 2007 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated November 8, 2007.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Cosmos
- Model
- BISON
- Serial number
- CB 1149
- Type
- Weight-shift controlFAA type of aircraft code 7 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Two-cycle pistonFAA type of engine code 7 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Rotax 503 DCDI · 52 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2002
- Transponder code
- A112F9 (octal 50211371)
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, 2007
- 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 · Registered before Jan 31, 2008FAA certificate purpose code 8A (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · November 8, 2007
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00393079
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Defreece Tony
- 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
- 22122 NE Rock Creek Canyon Rd
Battle Ground, WA 98604-6001
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
Connections how N1689 links to the rest of the register
- Cosmos 20 aircraft on the register
- Rotax 503 DCDI 561 aircraft with this engine series · 52 hp
- Battle Ground, WA 84 aircraft registered in this town
- Cedars North Airport · W58
- Goheen Airport · W52
- Washington 10,570 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N1689.json.
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The public federal record on N1689, 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 Defreece Tony, an individual, certificate issued August 21, 2007, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated November 8, 2007, 5 years after the 2002 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]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial CB 1149 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N1689 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Thompson PITTS SPECIAL (serial 100, cancelled October 19, 1992); Swallow SWALLOW (serial 872, cancelled September 18, 1936). 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 N1689. 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 October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- 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.
Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data