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N988DR

Cole Thomas D ZMAX OPEN SPORT

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesTennessee

N988DR is a Cole Thomas D ZMAX OPEN SPORT, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a two-stroke engine, built in 2006. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 1, 2007 and expires on October 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated November 10, 2007.

Aircraft

Maker
Cole Thomas D
Model
ZMAX OPEN SPORT
Serial number
401
Type
Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). All codes
Power
Two-cycle pistonFAA type of engine code 7 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). All codes, 1 motor · Zenoah ALL MDLS A/B · 25 hp
Seats
1
Year built
2006
Transponder code
ADC937 (octal 53344467)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). All codes
Certificate issued
October 1, 2007
Expires
October 31, 2028
Last FAA action
January 16, 2024
Airworthiness
ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · Registered before Jan 31, 2008FAA certificate purpose code 8A (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · November 10, 2007
FAA region
CentralFAA region code 3 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00418239

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Cole Thomas D
Type
IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). All codes
Address
1493 Harrison Rd
Murfreesboro, TN 37128-5748

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.

Records check free · 0 to understand · 5 clear

The public federal record on N988DR, 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 Cole Thomas D, an individual, certificate issued October 1, 2007, expires October 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

CLEARAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated November 10, 2007, consistent with the 2006 manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 401 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N988DR according to the deregistered file. [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 N988DR. 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