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N39PF

William L Payne HIGHLANDER

N39PF is a William L Payne HIGHLANDER, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2012. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Murphy, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 23, 2012 and expires on February 29, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated May 11, 2012.

Aircraft

Maker
William L Payne
Model
HIGHLANDER
Serial number
JA202-03-10
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Rotax 912ULS SERIES · 100 hp
Seats
2
Year built
2012
Kit
JUST AIRCRAFT LLC HIGHLANDER
Transponder code
A481BB (octal 51100673)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
February 23, 2012
Expires
February 29, 2028
Last FAA action
April 21, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · May 11, 2012
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
01088902

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Payne William L
Type
Individual
Address
238 Peachtree St
Murphy, NC 28906-2912

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Documents on file 0

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

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N39PF, 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 Payne William L, an individual, certificate issued February 23, 2012, expires February 29, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated May 11, 2012, consistent with the 2012 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial JA202-03-10 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N39PF according to the deregistered file. [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 N39PF. 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