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N498MN

Niemi Bruce J MURPHY RENEGADE SPIR

Valid Michigan

N498MN is a Niemi Bruce J MURPHY RENEGADE SPIR, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2014. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Allegan, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 21, 2013 and expires on October 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated September 11, 2014.

Aircraft

Maker
Niemi Bruce J
Model
MURPHY RENEGADE SPIR
Serial number
0389
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Rotax 912UL SERIES · 80 hp
Seats
2
Year built
2014
Kit
MURPHY AIRCRAFT MFG LTD RENEGADE SPIRIT
Transponder code
A62EF0 (octal 51427360)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
October 21, 2013
Expires
October 31, 2029
Last FAA action
September 9, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · September 11, 2014
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
01133341

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Niemi Bruce J
Type
Individual
Address
2329 Taft Rd
Allegan, MI 49010-9421

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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 N498MN, 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 Niemi Bruce J, an individual, certificate issued October 21, 2013, expires October 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated September 11, 2014, consistent with the 2014 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 0389 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N498MN 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 N498MN. 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