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N90459

Maness William A MANESS SPECIAL

Valid Alaska

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.

Aircraft

Maker
Maness William A
Model
MANESS SPECIAL
Serial number
1-1
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
Seats
4
Year built
2008
Transponder code
AC8131 (octal 53100461)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
April 26, 2006
Expires
March 31, 2030
Last FAA action
October 13, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · May 6, 2008
FAA region
Alaskan
FAA record id
00249579

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Maness William A
Type
Individual
Address
PO Box 56239
North Pole, AK 99705-1239

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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 4

2002-10-15Weatherly 620B · exported to Belize · Valid registration
1992-08-14Sikorsky S-76A · exported to Canada · Valid registration
1972-06-27Hiller UH-12L4 · exported to New Zealand · Valid registration
—Robinson Helicopter R22 · N-number assigned but not yet registered

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Maness William A, an individual, certificate issued April 26, 2006, expires March 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated May 6, 2008, consistent with the 2008 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1-1 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

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]

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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N90459: Accident on February 23, 1986 at Greenville, TN: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). Details below. [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.

NTSB records 1

ATL86FA081Accident on February 23, 1986 at Greenville, TN: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal).serial on NTSB record: 0108

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Robinson R22 · operated under 091

Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB

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 September 30, 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