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N3538M

John E Bruesch SPACEWALKER II

Valid Iowa

N3538M is a John E Bruesch SPACEWALKER II, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2025. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Long Grove, Iowa. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 12, 2025 and expires on June 30, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated September 25, 2025.

Aircraft

Maker
John E Bruesch
Model
SPACEWALKER II
Serial number
SA-SW2121108
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O-290-D · 130 hp
Seats
2
Year built
2025
Transponder code
A3F36E (octal 50771556)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
June 12, 2025
Expires
June 30, 2032
Last FAA action
June 12, 2025
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · September 25, 2025
FAA region
Central
FAA record id
01378404

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Bruesch John E
Type
Individual
Address
101 E Sapphire Ln
Long Grove, IA 52756-9551

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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 3

2010-09-30Martin Robert E RM2-2X REVOLUTION · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office
1979-12-20Piper PA-28R-201 · Valid registration
1949-06-28Piper PA-12 · Valid registration

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N3538M, 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 Bruesch John E, an individual, certificate issued June 12, 2025, expires June 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated September 25, 2025, consistent with the 2025 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial SA-SW2121108 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N3538M was previously assigned to 3 other aircraft: Martin Robert E RM2-2X REVOLUTION (serial X2000, cancelled September 30, 2010); Piper PA-28R-201 (serial 28R-7837122, cancelled December 20, 1979); Piper PA-12 (serial 12-2389, cancelled June 28, 1949). 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 N3538M. 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