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N2308Z

Dehavilland DH98 MOSQUITO T43

Valid Texas

N2308Z is a Dehavilland DH98 MOSQUITO T43, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turboprop engines, built in 1945. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Spitfire Ventures LLC, an LLC in San Antonio, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 31, 2024 and expires on May 31, 2031. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated July 5, 2024.

Aircraft

Maker
Dehavilland
Model
DH98 MOSQUITO T43
Serial number
A52-1054
Type
Fixed-wing, multi-engine
Power
Turboprop, 2 motors · Rolls-Royc MERLIN 33 · 1400 hp
Seats
2
Year built
1945
Transponder code
A20C08 (octal 50406010)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
May 31, 2024
Expires
May 31, 2031
Last FAA action
May 31, 2024
Airworthiness
Experimental · Exhibition · July 5, 2024
FAA region
Southwestern
FAA record id
01453710

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Spitfire Ventures LLC
Type
LLC
Address
10101 Reunion Pl Ste 1000
San Antonio, TX 78216-4157

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

2007-09-17Cessna 172R · exported to China Peoples Rep · Valid registration
2003-10-09Beech 23 · Second attempt to mail the triennial form, no response

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N2308Z, 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 Spitfire Ventures LLC, an LLC, certificate issued May 31, 2024, expires May 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated July 5, 2024, 79 years after the 1945 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 A52-1054 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N2308Z was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna 172R (serial 17281401, cancelled September 17, 2007); Beech 23 (serial M-22, cancelled October 9, 2003). 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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N2308Z. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.

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