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N48CU

Pearson Morris O SONEX

Valid Delaware

N48CU is a Pearson Morris O SONEX, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2009. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Wilmington, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 14, 2012 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated May 23, 2009.

Aircraft

Maker
Pearson Morris O
Model
SONEX
Serial number
1051
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Jabiru 3300 · 120 hp
Seats
2
Year built
2009
Kit
SONEX AIRCRAFT LLC SONEX
Transponder code
A5E685 (octal 51363205)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
April 14, 2012
Expires
April 30, 2028
Last FAA action
May 5, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · May 23, 2009
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
00453279

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Ulsaker Christopher W
Type
Individual
Address
200 Chandler Ave
Wilmington, DE 19807-1110

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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 N48CU, 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 Ulsaker Christopher W, an individual, certificate issued April 14, 2012, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated May 23, 2009, consistent with the 2009 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1051 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N48CU 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 N48CU. 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