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N79WA

Resnik Bernard W ACRO-SPECIAL

Valid Iowa

N79WA is a Resnik Bernard W ACRO-SPECIAL, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1984. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Earlham, Iowa. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 31, 2024 and expires on October 31, 2031. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated June 22, 2024.

Aircraft

Maker
Resnik Bernard W
Model
ACRO-SPECIAL
Serial number
3
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Franklin 4AC-176-C2 · 75 hp
Seats
2
Year built
1984
Transponder code
AAB7A1 (octal 52533641)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
October 31, 2024
Expires
October 31, 2031
Last FAA action
October 31, 2024
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · June 22, 2024
FAA region
Central
FAA record id
00875080

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Bean Brian J
Type
Individual
Address
35155 Filmore Ct
Earlham, IA 50072-5587

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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 · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N79WA, 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 Bean Brian J, an individual, certificate issued October 31, 2024, expires October 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 22, 2024, 40 years after the 1984 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]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 3 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N79WA 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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N79WA: Accident on July 2, 1992 at Earlham, IA: serious injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.

NTSB records 1

CHI92DCD07Accident on July 2, 1992 at Earlham, IA: serious injuries, substantial damage.

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Bernard W. Resnik ACRO-SPECIAL · operated under 091

A LOSS OF TOTAL ENGINE POWER WHEN A FAILED FLAPPER VALVE IN THE AIR BOX BLOCKED THE FLOW OF AIR THROUGH THE CARBURETOR THROAT.

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI92DCD07 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

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

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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data