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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026Swenson 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.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Swenson
- Model
- CASSUTT IIIM
- Serial number
- 227
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Cont Motor C90 SERIES · 95 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1978
- Transponder code
- A59366 (octal 51311546)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- February 24, 2026
- Expires
- February 28, 2033
- Last FAA action
- February 24, 2026
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Amateur builtFAA certificate purpose code 2 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · April 3, 1980
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00142798
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Southern Aircraft Consultancy INC Trustee
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 330 S Center St Ste 300
Casper, WY 82601-2873
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.
Connections how N45889 links to the rest of the register
- Swenson 1 aircraft on the register
- Continental C90 series 2,149 aircraft with this engine series · 95 hp
- Southern Aircraft Consultancy INC Trustee 496 aircraft in the fleet
- Casper, WY 1,206 aircraft registered in this town
- Casper/Natrona County International · CPR
- Irwins Sky Ranch Airport · HAD
- Wyoming 3,228 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Continental C90 series 6 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Continental C90 series 18 reports since 1995
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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.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data