Swenson CASSUTT IIIM
N45889 is a Swenson CASSUTT IIIM, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1978. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Southern Aircraft Consultancy INC Trustee, a corporation in Casper, Wyoming. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 24, 2026 and expires on February 28, 2033. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated April 3, 1980.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Swenson
- Model
- CASSUTT IIIM
- Serial number
- 227
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor C90 SERIES · 95 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1978
- Transponder code
- A59366 (octal 51311546)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 24, 2026
- Expires
- February 28, 2033
- Last FAA action
- February 24, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · April 3, 1980
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00142798
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Southern Aircraft Consultancy INC Trustee
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 330 S Center St Ste 300
Casper, WY 82601-2873
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N45889, 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 Southern Aircraft Consultancy INC Trustee, a corporation, certificate issued February 24, 2026, expires February 28, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated April 3, 1980, consistent with the 1978 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 227 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N45889 according to the deregistered file. [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 N45889: Accident on July 5, 2026 at Odessa, TX: serious injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cassutt IIIM · operated under 091
The pilot’s exceedance of the airplane’s critical angle of attack during the initial climb, which led to an aerodynamic stall and a loss of airplane control at too low of an altitude to recover. Contributing to the accident was the pilot’s lack of recent experience in the airplane.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN26LA244 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