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N38899

Thomas Morse S4C

Valid Wisconsin

N38899 is a Thomas Morse S4C, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Eaa Aviation Foundation INC, a corporation in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 5, 2018 and expires on July 31, 2028. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.

Aircraft

Maker
Thomas Morse
Model
S4C
Serial number
38899
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
Seats
1
Year built
Not given
Transponder code
A47CB7 (octal 51076267)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
July 5, 2018
Expires
July 31, 2028
Last FAA action
May 26, 2023
Airworthiness
None on file
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
01062456

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Eaa Aviation Foundation INC
Type
Corporation
Address
PO Box 3086
Oshkosh, WI 54903-3086

Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.

Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Earlier use of this number 2

1977-08-29Piper PA-28-181 · exported to Switzerland · Valid registration
1965-05-03Piper J3C-65 · exported to Canada · Valid registration

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N38899, 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 Eaa Aviation Foundation INC, a corporation, certificate issued July 5, 2018, expires July 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate

No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 38899 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N38899 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Piper PA-28-181 (serial 28-7790603, cancelled August 29, 1977); Piper J3C-65 (serial 7353, cancelled May 3, 1965). 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 N38899. 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