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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 30, 2026Dehavilland DHC-1B-2-S5
N89JG is a Dehavilland DHC-1B-2-S5, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Ghostwriter Airshows LLC, an LLC in Hustonville, Kentucky. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 22, 2025 and expires on April 30, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated May 10, 2010.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Dehavilland
- Model
- DHC-1B-2-S5 · all DHC-1B-2-S5s and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Dehavilland DHC-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
- 169-207
- 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-A1A5 · 290 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 93 mph
- Transponder code
- AC43CA (octal 53041712)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- April 22, 2025
- Expires
- April 30, 2032
- Last FAA action
- April 22, 2025
- 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 · ExhibitionFAA certificate purpose code 3 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · May 10, 2010
- FAA region
- CentralFAA region code 3 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00111491
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Ghostwriter Airshows 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
- 208 Hickory Cir
Hustonville, KY 40437-8352
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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 N89JG links to the rest of the register
- Dehavilland DHC-1 105 registered
- Dehavilland 861 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming IO-540-A1A5 16 aircraft with this engine series · 290 hp
- Ghostwriter Airshows LLC 4 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Hustonville, KY 7 aircraft registered in this town
- Kentucky 2,981 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Dehavilland DHC-1 5 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Dehavilland DHC-1 15 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Dehavilland DHC-1 65 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming IO-540-A1A5 33 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming IO-540-A1A5 6 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N89JG, 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 Ghostwriter Airshows LLC, an LLC, certificate issued April 22, 2025, expires April 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for exhibition; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 169-207 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N89JG was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Garrison James W TWINSTAR (serial 0001, cancelled December 8, 1997). 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]
1 NTSB record under N89JG: Accident on April 8, 1995 at Lakeland, FL: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Garrison KOLB TWINSTAR · operated under 091
FAILURE OF THE PILOT TO MAINTAIN AIRSPEED RESULTING IN THE INADVERTENT STALL. CONTRIBUTING TO THE ACCIDENT WAS COMPLACENCY BY THE PILOT WHILE ON SHORT FINAL APPROACH TO LAND.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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