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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 6, 2026Staudacher Jon SB985
N985SB is a Staudacher Jon SB985, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1994. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Eloy, Arizona. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 11, 2021 and expires on June 30, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated June 17, 1994.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Staudacher Jon
- Model
- SB985
- Serial number
- 17
- 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
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1994
- Transponder code
- ADBF49 (octal 53337511)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- June 11, 2021
- Expires
- June 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 19, 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 · June 17, 1994
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00125042
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Lewallen William J
- 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
- 4735 N Lear Rd
Eloy, AZ 85131-9710
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N985SB links to the rest of the register
- Staudacher Jon 6 aircraft on the register
- Eloy, AZ 47 aircraft registered in this town
- Eloy Municipal · E60
- Arizona 8,431 aircraft registered
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The public federal record on N985SB, 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 Lewallen William J, an individual, certificate issued June 11, 2021, expires June 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated June 17, 1994, consistent with the 1994 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 17 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N985SB 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N985SB. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data