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N9098F

Findlay Jeffrey L HIGHLANDER

Valid Indiana

N9098F is a Findlay Jeffrey L HIGHLANDER, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2021. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Lafayette, Indiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 30, 2021 and expires on June 30, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated October 6, 2021.

Aircraft

Maker
Findlay Jeffrey L
Model
HIGHLANDER
Serial number
JA 587-05-20
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Rotax 912UL SERIES · 80 hp
Seats
2
Year built
2021
Kit
JUST AIRCRAFT LLC HIGHLANDER
Transponder code
AC9411 (octal 53112021)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
June 30, 2021
Expires
June 30, 2028
Last FAA action
May 19, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Amateur built · October 6, 2021
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
01345177

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Findlay Jeffrey L
Type
Individual
Address
2103 W 550 S
Lafayette, IN 47909-8941

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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

2006-07-21Aerostar International Inc RX-7 · exported to Mexico · Sale reported
—Hughes 369HS · B

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N9098F, 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 Findlay Jeffrey L, an individual, certificate issued June 30, 2021, expires June 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated October 6, 2021, consistent with the 2021 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial JA 587-05-20 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N9098F was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Aerostar International Inc RX-7 (serial RX7-3285, cancelled July 21, 2006); Hughes 369HS (serial 1120435S, cancelled date not given). 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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N9098F. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.

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