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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 30, 2026Marcellus STARDUSTER SA-300
N2498 is a Marcellus STARDUSTER SA-300, 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 Plant City, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 7, 2023 and expires on November 30, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated August 24, 1979.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Marcellus
- Model
- STARDUSTER SA-300
- Serial number
- 7242
- 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 · Cont Motor E185 SERIES · 205 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1972
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- A254DE (octal 50452336)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- November 7, 2023
- Expires
- November 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- December 20, 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 · Amateur builtFAA certificate purpose code 2 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · August 24, 1979
- FAA region
- SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00922862
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Wilson Zachary H
- 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
- 5120 Shields Ln
Plant City, FL 33566-8404
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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 N2498 links to the rest of the register
- Marcellus 1 aircraft on the register
- Continental E185 series 1,107 aircraft with this engine series · 205 hp
- Plant City, FL 32 aircraft registered in this town
- Plant City Airport · PCM
- Florida 21,712 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Continental E185 series 7 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Continental E185 series 9 reports since 1995
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N2498.json.
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The public federal record on N2498, 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 Wilson Zachary H, an individual, certificate issued November 7, 2023, expires November 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 24, 1979, 7 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]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 7242 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N2498 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Alexander LONG WING EAGLEROCK (serial 131, cancelled January 3, 1933). 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]
2 NTSB records under N2498: Accident on July 24, 2007 at Columbia, IL: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on May 12, 1996 at Umatilla, FL: 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Marcellus Starduster SA-300 · operated under 091
The pilot's improper flare, which resulted in a hard landing and subsequent left main landing gear collapse.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Marcellus STAR FIRE · operated under 091
The pilot's improper use of brakes on landing roll out resulting in a nose over.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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