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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 5, 2026Bucker-Jungmann E3B
N289BU is a Bucker-Jungmann E3B, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1980. It has 1 seat. It is registered to co-owned owners in Germantown, Ohio. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 15, 2025 and expires on January 31, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated July 31, 1980.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Bucker-Jungmann
- Model
- E3B · all E3Bs and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube, wood and fabricA welded steel-tube fuselage and wooden wings, all covered in fabric: the construction of the 1930s and 1940s, which makes wood rot and fabric age the inspection items. The Bücker Jungmann biplane: steel-tube fuselage, wooden wings, fabric. This is how the Bucker Jungmann E3 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- E3B-348
- 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
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1980
- Cruising speed
- 111 mph
- Transponder code
- A2EF96 (octal 50567626)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- January 15, 2025
- Expires
- January 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- January 15, 2025
- 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 · July 31, 1980
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00360573
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Streifthau Holly L
- Type
- Co-ownedFAA type of owner code 4 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 233 S Cherry St
Germantown, OH 45327-1313 - Co-owners
- Streifthau Ernest R
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N289BU links to the rest of the register
- Bucker Jungmann E3 8 registered
- Bucker-Jungmann 10 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube, wood and fabric · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Germantown, OH 8 aircraft registered in this town
- Ohio 8,531 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N289BU.json.
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The public federal record on N289BU, 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 Streifthau Holly L, a co-owned, certificate issued January 15, 2025, expires January 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated July 31, 1980, consistent with the 1980 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial E3B-348 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N289BU according to the deregistered file. [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 N289BU. 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 November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 5, 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, November 5, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data