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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 3, 2026Thompson STARDUSTER SA-100
N55TT is a Thompson STARDUSTER SA-100, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1976. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Dirty Side Down LLC, an LLC in Downers Grove, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 4, 2018 and expires on September 30, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated December 1, 1976.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Thompson
- Model
- STARDUSTER SA-100
- Serial number
- TT-1
- 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 · Lycoming 0-290 SERIES · 140 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1976
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- A6FECD (octal 51577315)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- September 4, 2018
- Expires
- September 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 10, 2023
- 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 · December 1, 1976
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00603375
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Dirty Side Down LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- C/O David Rutter
640 Berkshire Ct
Downers Grove, IL 60516-4919
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N55TT links to the rest of the register
- Thompson 4 aircraft on the register
- Lycoming O-290 series 2,126 aircraft with this engine series · 140 hp
- Dirty Side Down LLC 6 aircraft in the fleet
- Downers Grove, IL 86 aircraft registered in this town
- Illinois 8,061 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming O-290 series 7 airworthiness directives
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N55TT.json.
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The public federal record on N55TT, 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 Dirty Side Down LLC, an LLC, certificate issued September 4, 2018, expires September 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated December 1, 1976, consistent with the 1976 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial TT-1 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N55TT 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 N55TT. 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 November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 3, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data