Chapman CHAPMAN SPECIAL
N48GW is a Chapman CHAPMAN SPECIAL, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1965. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Big Lake, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 12, 2000 and expires on February 28, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated August 25, 1979.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Chapman
- Model
- CHAPMAN SPECIAL
- Serial number
- CS-1
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-290 SERIES · 140 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1965
- Cruising speed
- 86 mph
- Transponder code
- A5E6EB (octal 51363353)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 12, 2000
- Expires
- February 28, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · August 25, 1979
- FAA region
- Alaskan
- FAA record id
- 00675360
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Majerle Steven A
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- PO Box 520851
Big Lake, AK 99652-0851
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.
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The public federal record on N48GW, 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 Majerle Steven A, an individual, certificate issued December 12, 2000, expires February 28, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 25, 1979, 14 years after the 1965 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 CS-1 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N48GW 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N48GW. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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
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