Hunter John A-20 VISTA CRUISER
N9027M is a Hunter John A-20 VISTA CRUISER, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Cave Junction, Oregon. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 11, 2025 and expires on March 31, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated October 31, 2004.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Hunter John
- Model
- A-20 VISTA CRUISER
- Serial number
- SA-20C-042
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). All codes, 1 motor · Rotax SEE BOMBADIER
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Kit
- SPECTRUM AIRCRAFT CORP A-20 VISTA-VARLET
- Transponder code
- AC79F3 (octal 53074763)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). All codes
- Certificate issued
- March 11, 2025
- Expires
- March 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- March 11, 2025
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · Amateur builtFAA certificate purpose code 2 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · October 31, 2004
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00136549
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Emonds Jason B
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). All codes
- Address
- 424 Airport Dr
Cave Junction, OR 97523-9201
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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 2
Records check free · 2 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N9027M, 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 Emonds Jason B, an individual, certificate issued March 11, 2025, expires March 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial SA-20C-042 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N9027M was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Nielsen Carl S QUICKIE (serial 0339, cancelled October 25, 1984); Cessna 180H (serial 18052127, cancelled April 24, 1980). 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 N9027M: Accident on May 14, 2012 at Molalla, OR: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Hunter A-20 VISTA CRUISER · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain clearance from a rock during an off-airport landing.
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 September 30, 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