Schaefer Donald E MA30
N43079 is a Schaefer Donald E MA30, a weight-shift aircraft with a two-stroke engine, built in 1996. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Soldotna, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 15, 2006 and expires on June 30, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated October 16, 2007.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Schaefer Donald E
- Model
- MA30
- Serial number
- 13DES
- Type
- Weight-shift control
- Power
- Two-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 503 SERIES · 52 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1996
- Transponder code
- A5268D (octal 51223215)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 15, 2006
- Expires
- June 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 11, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Registered before Jan 31, 2008 · October 16, 2007
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00294519
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Schaefer Donald E
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 3618
Soldotna, AK 99669-3618
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 3
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N43079, 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 Schaefer Donald E, an individual, certificate issued December 15, 2006, expires June 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated October 16, 2007, 11 years after the 1996 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 13DES for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N43079 was previously assigned to 3 other aircraft: Raytheon Aircraft Company HAWKER 800 (serial 258469, cancelled September 26, 2002); Piper PA-28-151 (serial 287415423, cancelled September 10, 1996); Taylorcraft BC12-D (serial 6738, cancelled June 12, 1965). 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 N43079: Accident on November 30, 1993 at Daytona Beach, FL: fatal, destroyed (1 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: Piper PA-28-151 · operated under 091
LOSS OF AIRCRAFT CONTROL FOR AN UNDETERMINED REASON.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for MIA94FA030 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