Johnson Donald L ORIGINAL DESIGN
N81042 is a Johnson Donald L ORIGINAL DESIGN, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1996. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Lawson, Missouri. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 14, 2014 and expires on May 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated March 27, 1996.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Johnson Donald L
- Model
- ORIGINAL DESIGN
- Serial number
- 101
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Volkswagen CONVERSION · 36 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1996
- Transponder code
- AB0C5B (octal 52606133)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 14, 2014
- Expires
- May 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · March 27, 1996
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00125362
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Shafer Cristofer D
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 30849 W 174Th St
Lawson, MO 64062-9295
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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
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The public federal record on N81042, 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 Shafer Cristofer D, an individual, certificate issued May 14, 2014, expires May 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated March 27, 1996, consistent with the 1996 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 101 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N81042 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Beech F33A (serial CE1702, cancelled November 4, 1992); Piper PA-28RT-201T (serial 28R8031002, cancelled May 4, 1988). 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 N81042. 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