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N7179K

Heideman Wilbert D CORBEN JUNIOR ACE

Valid Indiana

N7179K is a Heideman Wilbert D CORBEN JUNIOR ACE, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Churubusco, Indiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 17, 1998 and expires on August 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated August 7, 1991.

Aircraft

Maker
Heideman Wilbert D
Model
CORBEN JUNIOR ACE
Serial number
WH-2
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor C85 SERIES · 85 hp
Seats
2
Year built
Not given
Transponder code
A999AB (octal 52314653)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
October 17, 1998
Expires
August 31, 2028
Last FAA action
June 3, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · August 7, 1991
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
00995151

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Mattes Michael A
Type
Individual
Address
11634 State Road 205
Churubusco, IN 46723-9200

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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 · 4 clear

The public federal record on N7179K, 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 Mattes Michael A, an individual, certificate issued October 17, 1998, expires August 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

NOTEAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for amateur built; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

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

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N7179K 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 N7179K. 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