Copsey Donald O HEAVY HAULER
N57894 is a Copsey Donald O HEAVY HAULER, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Riga, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 14, 2015 and expires on August 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated July 8, 1994.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Copsey Donald O
- Model
- HEAVY HAULER
- Serial number
- 453
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Bombardier ROTAX (ALL)
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A76FD1 (octal 51667721)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 14, 2015
- Expires
- August 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 3, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · July 8, 1994
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00054672
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bailey Christopher J
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 8910 Schroeder Rd
Riga, MI 49276-9611
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.
Earlier use of this number 2
Records check free · 1 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N57894, 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 Bailey Christopher J, an individual, certificate issued August 14, 2015, expires August 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 453 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N57894 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Aerospatiale AS-355E TWIN STAR (serial 5079, cancelled September 23, 1988); Hughes 269A (serial 1081000, cancelled April 10, 1980). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N57894. 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