Bigham Jack L MARQUART M 5 CHARGER
N987JB is a Bigham Jack L MARQUART M 5 CHARGER, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Cassill Aircraft Leasing INC, a corporation in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 12, 2022 and expires on March 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated April 18, 1988.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Bigham Jack L
- Model
- MARQUART M 5 CHARGER
- Serial number
- 987JB
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- ADC5EF (octal 53342757)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 12, 2022
- Expires
- March 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · April 18, 1988
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00724211
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Cassill Aircraft Leasing INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 170 Abbotsford Rd SE
Cedar Rapids, IA 52404
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N987JB, 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 Cassill Aircraft Leasing INC, a corporation, certificate issued March 12, 2022, expires March 31, 2029. 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 987JB for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N987JB 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]
1 NTSB record under N987JB: Accident on May 15, 2026 at Tucson, AZ: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Bigham Jack L MARQUART M 5 CHARGER · operated under 091
On May 15, 2026, about 1500 mountain standard time, an experimental amateur built Marquart M5 Charger was substantially damaged when it was involved in an accident near Tucson, Arizona. The pilot was not injured. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 personal fight. The pilot reported that prior to departing, he checked the fuel quantity indicator and observed about 14 gallons of fuel. He estimated that it would provide one hour of useable fuel. The pilot departed and noticed a “heavy smell of rubber” and no smoke. The rubber smell then went away. The pil…
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- 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