Stephen J Moorman JUST AIRCRAFT HIGHLA
N169SM is a Stephen J Moorman JUST AIRCRAFT HIGHLA, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Spruce Pine, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 13, 2021 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated December 19, 2012.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Stephen J Moorman
- Model
- JUST AIRCRAFT HIGHLA
- Serial number
- JAESC0049
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 912ULS2 · 100 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Kit
- JUST AIRCRAFT LLC HIGHLANDER
- Transponder code
- A114B9 (octal 50212271)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 13, 2021
- Expires
- January 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 14, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · December 19, 2012
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 01109345
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Pherigo Aaron L
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1980 Mckinney Mine Rd
Spruce Pine, NC 28777-6452
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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
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The public federal record on N169SM, 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 Pherigo Aaron L, an individual, certificate issued January 13, 2021, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial JAESC0049 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N169SM was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 560XL (serial 560-5749, cancelled February 19, 2008). 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]
1 NTSB record under N169SM: Accident on August 13, 2023 at Edenton, NC: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Stephen J Moorman JUST AIRCRAFT HIGHLA · operated under 091
The pilot’s inadequate fuel planning, which led to a total loss of engine power due to fuel exhaustion.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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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