Hermann Bjorn LANCAIR IV
N89NW is a Hermann Bjorn LANCAIR IV, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turboprop engines, built in 2005. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Common Cents Holding Company LLC, an LLC in Memphis, Tennessee. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 9, 2016 and expires on December 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated October 29, 2005.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Hermann Bjorn
- Model
- LANCAIR IV
- Serial number
- LIV556
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Turboprop, 1 motor · Walter M601 SER · 777 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2005
- Kit
- LANCAIR INTL INC LANCAIR IV/IV FAST
- Transponder code
- AC443C (octal 53042074)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 9, 2016
- Expires
- December 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · October 29, 2005
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00149269
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Common Cents Holding Company LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 123 Founders Ln
Memphis, TN 38103-4763
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N89NW, 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 Common Cents Holding Company LLC, an LLC, certificate issued December 9, 2016, expires December 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated October 29, 2005, consistent with the 2005 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial LIV556 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N89NW according to the deregistered file. [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 N89NW: Accident on July 28, 1992 at Hayfork, CA: minor injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Bell UH-1B · operated under 133
THE FAILURE OF THE MAIN ROTOR DRIVE SHAFT DUE TO THE IMPROPER INSTALLATION BY COMPANY MAINTENANCE PERSONNEL OF AN 'O' RING SEAL, WHICH ALLOWED THE PACKING GREASE TO ESCAPE AND CAUSED THE OVER TEMPERATURE FAILURE OF THE DRIVE SHAFT. A FACTOR IN THE ACCIDENT WAS THE LACK OF SUITABLE TERRAIN IN WHICH TO PERFORM AN AUTOROTATION.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data