Yakovlev YAK-55M
N52896 is a Yakovlev YAK-55M, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1992. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Whiskey Bend Holdings LLC, an LLC in Helena, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 3, 2025 and expires on June 30, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated October 13, 1994.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Yakovlev
- Model
- YAK-55M · all YAK-55Ms and related versions
- Serial number
- 920504
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1992
- Transponder code
- A6AA58 (octal 51525130)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 3, 2025
- Expires
- June 30, 2032
- Last FAA action
- June 3, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Exhibition · October 13, 1994
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00405122
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Whiskey Bend Holdings LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 55 W 14Th St Ste 101
Helena, MT 59601-3387
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 2
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N52896, 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 Whiskey Bend Holdings LLC, an LLC, certificate issued June 3, 2025, expires June 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for exhibition, dated October 13, 1994, consistent with the 1992 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 920504 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N52896 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna 172P (serial 17274631, cancelled November 14, 1989); Cessna T-50 (serial 3528, cancelled October 21, 1955). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N52896: Accident on July 22, 1989 at Cincinnati, OH: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 172P · operated under 091
THE PILOT'S IMPROPER GO-AROUND PROCEDURE OF FULLY RETRACTING THE FLAPS WHICH RESULTED IN THE AIRPLANE MUSHING INTO TREES. CONTRIBUTING FACTOR(S) WAS: A MISJUDGEMENT OF FLARE HEIGHT ABOVE THE RUNWAY AND FAILURE TO REMOVE THE CARBURETOR HEAT WHICH MAY HAVE PREVENTED THE AVAILABILITY OF FULL POWER.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ATL89LA183 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