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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 30, 2026Messerschmitt ME 108 TAIFUN
N2231 is a Messerschmitt ME 108 TAIFUN, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1942. It has 4 seats. It is registered to American Airpower Heritage Fly Musm, a corporation in Dallas, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 5, 1991 and expires on September 30, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated April 10, 1980.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Messerschmitt
- Model
- ME 108 TAIFUN
- Serial number
- 3059
- 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 · Argus AS10R · 250 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1942
- Cruising speed
- 121 mph
- Transponder code
- A1EEA1 (octal 50367241)
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 5, 1991
- Expires
- September 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 10, 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 · ExhibitionFAA certificate purpose code 3 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · April 10, 1980
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00111802
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- American Airpower Heritage Fly Musm
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- PO Box 764769
Dallas, TX 75376-4769
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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 N2231 links to the rest of the register
- Messerschmitt 21 aircraft on the register
- Argus AS10R 6 aircraft with this engine series · 250 hp
- American Airpower Heritage Fly Musm 16 aircraft in the fleet
- Dallas, TX 1,862 aircraft registered in this town
- Addison Airport · ADS
- Dallas Executive · RBD
- Dallas Love Field · DAL
- Mckinney Ntl Airport · TKI
- 3 more landing places in town
- Texas 29,945 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N2231.json.
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The public federal record on N2231, 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 American Airpower Heritage Fly Musm, a corporation, certificate issued September 5, 1991, expires September 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 10, 1980, 38 years after the 1942 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 3059 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N2231 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Advance Aircraft Co WACO 6 (serial A-456, cancelled November 5, 1927). 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 N2231. 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 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 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, October 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data