Ben J Oliver BUSHWAGON 2
N2988B is a Ben J Oliver BUSHWAGON 2, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2012. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in San Clemente, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 9, 2020 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated June 14, 2012.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Ben J Oliver
- Model
- BUSHWAGON 2
- Serial number
- 1002
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O-360-A3A · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2012
- Transponder code
- A316A4 (octal 50613244)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 9, 2020
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- September 30, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · June 14, 2012
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 01072424
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Longobardo Anthony
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 2915 Canto De Los Ciervos
San Clemente, CA 92673-6423
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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 N2988B, 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 Longobardo Anthony, an individual, certificate issued January 9, 2020, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated June 14, 2012, consistent with the 2012 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1002 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N2988B was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Beech D35 (serial D3626, cancelled December 16, 1994). 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 N2988B: Accident on August 27, 1993 at Alpine, CA: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal). 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: Beech D-35 · operated under 091
THE FAILURE OF THE PILOT TO MAINTAIN DIRECTION CONTROL DURING THE INITIAL TAKEOFF CLIMB WHICH PLACED AN OBSTRUCTION IN THE AIRPLANE'S TAKEOFF FLIGHT PATH AND A SUBSEQUENT INADVERTENT STALL. A FACTOR IN THE ACCIDENT WAS THE EXISTING CROSSWIND.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX93FA335 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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 August 27, 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