{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"1980-04-03","airworthiness_ops":"Amateur built","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2026-02-24","city":"CASPER","country_code":"US","county_code":"025","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"17009","engine_horsepower":95,"engine_maker":"CONT MOTOR","engine_model":"C90 SERIES","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2033-02-28","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2026-02-24","maker":"Swenson","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"SWENSON","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"1970345","mode_s_code":"51311546","mode_s_hex":"A59366","model":"CASSUTT IIIM","n_number":"N45889","name":"SOUTHERN AIRCRAFT CONSULTANCY INC TRUSTEE","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Odessa","damage":"SUBS","date":"2026-07-05","highest_injury":"SERS","ntsb_no":"CEN26LA244","probable_cause":"The pilot\u2019s exceedance of the airplane\u2019s critical angle of attack during the initial climb, which led to an aerodynamic stall and a loss of airplane control at too low of an altitude to recover. Contributing to the accident was the pilot\u2019s lack of recent experience in the airplane.","registration":"N45889","state":"TX","summary":"Accident on July 5, 2026 at Odessa, TX: serious injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N45889 is a Swenson CASSUTT IIIM, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1978. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Southern Aircraft Consultancy INC Trustee, a corporation in Casper, Wyoming. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 24, 2026 and expires on February 28, 2033. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated April 3, 1980.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Southern Aircraft Consultancy INC Trustee, a corporation, certificate issued February 24, 2026, expires February 28, 2033. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated April 3, 1980, consistent with the 1978 manufacture year.","item":"Airworthiness certificate","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 227 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N45889 according to the deregistered file.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"1 NTSB record under N45889: Accident on July 5, 2026 at Odessa, TX: serious injuries, substantial damage. Details below.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Title chain, liens and 337 forms","source":null,"status":"PENDING"},{"finding":"AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.","item":"Airworthiness directives and utilization","source":null,"status":"PENDING"}],"records_check_sources":[{"n":1,"name":"FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":2,"name":"FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download)","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":3,"name":"FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":4,"name":"NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL)","url":"https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search"}],"region":"Northwest Mountain","region_code":"S","registrant_type":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":1,"serial_number":"227","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"WY","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"330 S CENTER ST STE 300","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00142798","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N45889","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1978,"zip":"826012873"}