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N89E

Sawyer Ralph V EMERAUDE CP-305A

N89E is a Sawyer Ralph V EMERAUDE CP-305A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1980. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Mojave Transportation Museum Foundation, a corporation in Mojave, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 14, 2011 and expires on December 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated May 9, 1980.

Aircraft

Maker
Sawyer Ralph V
Model
EMERAUDE CP-305A
Serial number
1177
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
Seats
2
Year built
1980
Transponder code
AC435F (octal 53041537)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
December 14, 2011
Expires
December 31, 2027
Last FAA action
April 7, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · May 9, 1980
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
00231761

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Mojave Transportation Museum Foundation
Type
Corporation
Address
PO Box 155
Mojave, CA 93502-0155

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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 3

1971-01-20North American F-51D · Valid registration
1949-09-16Stinson SR-9FM · Valid registration
1933-06-22Command-Aire 3C-3 · Valid registration

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N89E, 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 Mojave Transportation Museum Foundation, a corporation, certificate issued December 14, 2011, expires December 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated May 9, 1980, consistent with the 1980 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1177 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N89E was previously assigned to 3 other aircraft: North American F-51D (serial 44-73978, cancelled January 20, 1971); Stinson SR-9FM (serial 5723, cancelled September 16, 1949); Command-Aire 3C-3 (serial 538, cancelled June 22, 1933). 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 N89E. 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