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N622WD

Joel L Buseman PITTS MODEL 12

Valid Iowa

N622WD is a Joel L Buseman PITTS MODEL 12, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2015. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Belmond, Iowa. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 8, 2014 and expires on October 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated July 29, 2015.

Aircraft

Maker
Joel L Buseman
Model
PITTS MODEL 12
Serial number
288
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Vedeneyev M14P · 350 hp
Seats
2
Year built
2015
Kit
JIM KIMBALL ENTERPRISES PITTS MODEL 12
Transponder code
A81FA3 (octal 52017643)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
October 8, 2014
Expires
October 31, 2027
Last FAA action
March 24, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · July 29, 2015
FAA region
Central
FAA record id
01162000

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Buseman Joel L
Type
Individual
Address
1601 3Rd St NE
Belmond, IA 50421

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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 N622WD, 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 Buseman Joel L, an individual, certificate issued October 8, 2014, expires October 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated July 29, 2015, consistent with the 2015 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 288 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N622WD 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 N622WD. 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