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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026Smith MINIPLANE DSA1
N5908 is a Smith MINIPLANE DSA1, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Channahon, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 27, 2024 and expires on September 30, 2031. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated May 14, 1980.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Smith
- Model
- MINIPLANE DSA1
- Serial number
- LS1
- 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 · Cont Motor C90 SERIES · 95 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 86 mph
- Transponder code
- A7A0D7 (octal 51720327)
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 27, 2024
- Expires
- September 30, 2031
- Last FAA action
- September 27, 2024
- 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 · May 14, 1980
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00911875
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bushby Harvey M III
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 25154 W Pine St
Channahon, IL 60410-5014
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No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N5908 links to the rest of the register
- Smith 184 aircraft on the register
- Continental C90 series 2,149 aircraft with this engine series · 95 hp
- Channahon, IL 8 aircraft registered in this town
- Illinois 8,050 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Continental C90 series 6 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Continental C90 series 18 reports since 1995
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N5908.json.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N5908, 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 Bushby Harvey M III, an individual, certificate issued September 27, 2024, expires September 30, 2031. 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 LS1 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N5908 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 N5908. 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 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data