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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 30, 2026Eagle Aircraft Co.-Bellanca EAGLE DW-1
N88002 is an Eagle Aircraft Co.-Bellanca EAGLE DW-1, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1980. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Heiderscheidt Aerial LLC, an LLC in Sleepy Eye, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 29, 2026 and expires on July 31, 2033. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for to show compliance with regulations, dated July 3, 1980.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Eagle Aircraft Co.-Bellanca
- Model
- EAGLE DW-1 · all EAGLE DW-1s and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube and fabricThe fuselage is a welded steel-tube frame covered in fabric, with metal or wooden wing spars under fabric-covered wings; the fabric is replaced every few decades. An agricultural biplane: steel tube and fabric. This is how the Eagle Aircraft Co.-Bellanca EAGLE DW-1 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- DW-1-0005-80
- 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 · Lycoming IO-540 SER · 300 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1980
- Transponder code
- AC2048 (octal 53020110)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- July 29, 2026
- Expires
- July 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- July 29, 2026
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · To show compliance with regulationsFAA certificate purpose code 0 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · July 3, 1980
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00301991
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Heiderscheidt Aerial LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 18219 268Th Ave
Sleepy Eye, MN 56085-5122
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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 N88002 links to the rest of the register
- Eagle Aircraft Co.-Bellanca EAGLE DW-1 6 registered
- Eagle Aircraft Co.-Bellanca 6 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube and fabric · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming IO-540 series 4,222 aircraft with this engine series · 300 hp
- Heiderscheidt Aerial LLC 3 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Sleepy Eye, MN 16 aircraft registered in this town
- Sleepy Eye Municipal · Y58
- Minnesota 6,939 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming IO-540 series 49 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming IO-540 series 316 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N88002, 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 Heiderscheidt Aerial LLC, an LLC, certificate issued July 29, 2026, expires July 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for to show compliance with regulations, dated July 3, 1980, consistent with the 1980 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial DW-1-0005-80 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N88002 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper J3C-65 (serial 15620, cancelled April 18, 1967). 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 N88002. 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 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 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, October 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data