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Maness William A MANESS SPECIAL
N90459 is a Maness William A MANESS SPECIAL, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2008. It has 4 seats. It is registered to an individual in North Pole, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 26, 2006 and expires on March 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated May 6, 2008.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Maness William A
- Model
- MANESS SPECIAL
- Serial number
- 1-1
- 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 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 2008
- Transponder code
- AC8131 (octal 53100461)
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 26, 2006
- Expires
- March 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 13, 2023
- 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 · Amateur builtFAA certificate purpose code 2 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · May 6, 2008
- FAA region
- AlaskanFAA region code 5 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00249579
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Maness William A
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- PO Box 56239
North Pole, AK 99705-1239
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 4
Connections how N90459 links to the rest of the register
- Maness William A 1 aircraft on the register
- Lycoming O-320 series 27,311 aircraft with this engine series · 180 hp
- North Pole, AK 157 aircraft registered in this town
- Bradley Sky-Ranch Airport · 95Z
- Alaska 9,146 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming O-320 series 29 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming O-320 series 349 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N90459, 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 Maness William A, an individual, certificate issued April 26, 2006, expires March 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated May 6, 2008, consistent with the 2008 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1-1 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N90459 was previously assigned to 4 other aircraft: Weatherly 620B (serial 1656, cancelled October 15, 2002); Sikorsky S-76A (serial 760015, cancelled August 14, 1992); Hiller UH-12L4 (serial 2517, cancelled June 27, 1972). 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 N90459: Accident on February 23, 1986 at Greenville, TN: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). 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: Robinson R22 · operated under 091
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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data