Cushing Douglas/Cushing Glen PL-2
N8039P is a Cushing Douglas/Cushing Glen PL-2, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1979. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Pagosa Springs, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 24, 2026 and expires on August 31, 2033. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated May 26, 1981.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Cushing Douglas/Cushing Glen
- Model
- PL-2
- Serial number
- 1
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-290 SERIES · 140 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1979
- Transponder code
- AAF0A3 (octal 52570243)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 24, 2026
- Expires
- August 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- August 24, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · May 26, 1981
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00820592
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Osborn Matthew
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 160 Pinon Cswy Unit 3051
Pagosa Springs, CO 81147-8337
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
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The public federal record on N8039P, 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 Osborn Matthew, an individual, certificate issued August 24, 2026, expires August 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated May 26, 1981, consistent with the 1979 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N8039P was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-24-250 (serial 24-3251, cancelled April 29, 1963). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N8039P. 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 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- 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