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N8068H

Nijman John SEAREY

Valid New York

N8068H is a Nijman John SEAREY, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2003. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Buffalo, New York. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 19, 2021 and expires on February 29, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated October 6, 2003.

Aircraft

Maker
Nijman John
Model
SEAREY
Serial number
1MK328C
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Rotax SEE BOMBADIER
Seats
2
Year built
2003
Kit
PROGRESSIVE AERODYNE INC SEAREY
Transponder code
AAFB9F (octal 52575637)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
February 19, 2021
Expires
February 29, 2028
Last FAA action
April 21, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · October 6, 2003
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
00066739

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Bainbridge Gerald J
Type
Individual
Address
46 Burlington Ave
Buffalo, NY 14215-2714

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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 2

1983-11-23Andrews Floyd BENSEN B-8M · Administratively canceled
1960-02-10Beech C-45F · Valid registration

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N8068H, 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 Bainbridge Gerald J, an individual, certificate issued February 19, 2021, expires February 29, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated October 6, 2003, consistent with the 2003 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1MK328C for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N8068H was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Andrews Floyd BENSEN B-8M (serial 1, cancelled November 23, 1983); Beech C-45F (serial 44-47546, cancelled February 10, 1960). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N8068H. 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