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N988WZ

Simpson Barry R DAKOTA HAWK

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesOhio

N988WZ is a Simpson Barry R DAKOTA HAWK, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Harrison, Ohio. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 17, 2020 and expires on July 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated March 22, 2018.

Aircraft

Maker
Simpson Barry R
Model
DAKOTA HAWK
Serial number
DH44
Type
Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). All codes
Power
Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). All codes, 1 motor · Cont Motor C85-12F · 85 hp
Seats
2
Year built
Not given
Kit
FISHER FLYING PRODUCTS DAKOTA HAWK
Transponder code
ADCAE8 (octal 53345350)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). All codes
Certificate issued
July 17, 2020
Expires
July 31, 2027
Last FAA action
March 4, 2023
Airworthiness
ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · Amateur builtFAA certificate purpose code 2 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · March 22, 2018
FAA region
Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
01231579

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Siegrist Jeffrey M
Type
IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). All codes
Address
9864 Baughman Rd
Harrison, OH 45030-1771

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Records check free · 0 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N988WZ, 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 Siegrist Jeffrey M, an individual, certificate issued July 17, 2020, expires July 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

NOTEAirworthiness certificate

Experimental certificate for amateur built; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial DH44 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N988WZ 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 N988WZ. 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