Hardie Steven AIR CAM
N30581 is a Hardie Steven AIR CAM, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 2002. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Manatee Aviation Enterprises INC, a corporation in Bradenton, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 9, 2016 and expires on August 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated December 7, 2002.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Hardie Steven
- Model
- AIR CAM
- Serial number
- AC0096
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors · Bombardier ROTAX (ALL)
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2002
- Kit
- LEZA-LOCKWOOD INTERNATIONAL AIR CAM
- Transponder code
- A3356F (octal 50632557)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 9, 2016
- Expires
- August 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 25, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · December 7, 2002
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00994104
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Manatee Aviation Enterprises INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 1813 Manatee Ave W
Bradenton, FL 34205-5926
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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 N30581, 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 Manatee Aviation Enterprises INC, a corporation, certificate issued August 9, 2016, expires August 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated December 7, 2002, consistent with the 2002 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial AC0096 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N30581 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna A188B (serial 18803180T, cancelled September 21, 1979). 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 N30581: Accident on February 16, 2008 at Duncan Mills, CA: minor 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 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Steven Hardie AIR CAM · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain clearance with power lines while maneuvering at a low altitude. Contributing factors included the pilot's decision to fly at low altitude and the sun glare condition.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for SEA08CA081 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
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