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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 3, 2026Dehavilland TIGER MOTH DH82
N85996 is a Dehavilland TIGER MOTH DH82, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1939. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Tecumseh, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 22, 1992 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated July 14, 1981.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Dehavilland
- Model
- TIGER MOTH DH82
- Serial number
- MPFC-TM1
- 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 · Dehav Eng GIPSY MAJOR · 140 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1939
- Transponder code
- ABCC79 (octal 52746171)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- May 22, 1992
- Expires
- April 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 20, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Normal; UtilityFAA certificate purpose code NU (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · July 14, 1981
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00952851
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Kisela Andrew J
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 605 Curtis Dr
Tecumseh, MI 49286
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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
Connections how N85996 links to the rest of the register
- Dehavilland 861 aircraft on the register
- de Havilland Engine GIPSY MAJOR 89 aircraft with this engine series · 140 hp
- Tecumseh, MI 48 aircraft registered in this town
- AL Meyers Airport · 3TE
- Merillat Airport · 34G
- Tecumseh Mills Airport · 22T
- Van Camp'S Heliport · 2T7
- Michigan 7,225 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N85996.json.
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The public federal record on N85996, 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 Kisela Andrew J, an individual, certificate issued May 22, 1992, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated July 14, 1981, 42 years after the 1939 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 MPFC-TM1 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N85996 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Aeronca 11AC (serial 11AC-413, cancelled April 13, 1971). 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 N85996. 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 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 3, 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 3, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data