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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 5, 2026Partridge-Waples STARDUSTER TOO 300
N7989 is a Partridge-Waples STARDUSTER TOO 300, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1971. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Pour le Merite Aviation LLC, an LLC in Houston, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 21, 2017 and expires on July 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated August 12, 1980.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Partridge-Waples
- Model
- STARDUSTER TOO 300
- Serial number
- 476
- 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 E185 SERIES · 205 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1971
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- AAD950 (octal 52554520)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- July 21, 2017
- Expires
- July 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 4, 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 · August 12, 1980
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00675290
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Pour le Merite Aviation 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
- 8103 Glenbrae St
Houston, TX 77061-3215
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N7989 links to the rest of the register
- Partridge-Waples 1 aircraft on the register
- Continental E185 series 1,108 aircraft with this engine series · 205 hp
- Pour le Merite Aviation LLC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Houston, TX 1,182 aircraft registered in this town
- Conroe/North Houston Regional · CXO
- David Wayne Hooks Memorial · DWH
- Ellington Airport · EFD
- George Bush Intcntl/Houston Airport · IAH
- 8 more landing places in town
- Texas 29,958 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Continental E185 series 7 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Continental E185 series 9 reports since 1995
- Report filed on this aircraft: Filter, burst · 1997-02-19
- Report filed on this aircraft: Filter, burst · 1997-02-19
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The public federal record on N7989, 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 Pour le Merite Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued July 21, 2017, expires July 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 12, 1980, 9 years after the 1971 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 476 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N7989 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 N7989. 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 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 5, 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 5, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data