Van Arsdell Brent H RUTAN LONG EZ
N989LE is a Van Arsdell Brent H RUTAN LONG EZ, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1989. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in West Des Moines, Iowa. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 1, 2020 and expires on September 30, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated July 20, 2001.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Van Arsdell Brent H
- Model
- RUTAN LONG EZ
- Serial number
- 1989-LE-1
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1989
- Transponder code
- ADCD92 (octal 53346622)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 1, 2020
- Expires
- September 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 17, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · July 20, 2001
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00774601
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Clark James L
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 4100 Dakota Dr
West Des Moines, IA 50265-3815
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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 N989LE, 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 Clark James L, an individual, certificate issued September 1, 2020, expires September 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated July 20, 2001, 12 years after the 1989 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1989-LE-1 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N989LE 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 N989LE: Accident on November 29, 1992 at Charleston, SC: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Van Arsdell/Brent,M. RUTAN LONG EZ · operated under 091
THE PILOT'S INADEQUATE PRE-FLIGHT PLANNING AND HIS FAILURE TO NOTE THE RAISED ARRESTING DEVICE NEAR THE RUNWAY THRESHOLD.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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