Clinton Lee Busenitz BADLANDS TRAVELER 2
N98HP is a Clinton Lee Busenitz BADLANDS TRAVELER 2, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2019. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Jds Aero LLC, an LLC in Decatur, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 7, 2020 and expires on October 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated July 2, 2019.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Clinton Lee Busenitz
- Model
- BADLANDS TRAVELER 2
- Serial number
- 005
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming O-360-A4A · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2019
- Transponder code
- ADA988 (octal 53324610)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 7, 2020
- Expires
- October 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 14, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · July 2, 2019
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 01295553
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Jds Aero LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 1226 County Road 4380
Decatur, TX 76234-8709
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
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The public federal record on N98HP, 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 Jds Aero LLC, an LLC, certificate issued October 7, 2020, expires October 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated July 2, 2019, consistent with the 2019 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 005 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N98HP was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Gildersleeve Hayden P STROJNIK S2-A (serial 044, cancelled July 9, 2013). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N98HP. 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 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 August 27, 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