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N43079

Schaefer Donald E MA30

Valid Alaska

N43079 is a Schaefer Donald E MA30, a weight-shift aircraft with a two-stroke engine, built in 1996. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Soldotna, Alaska. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 15, 2006 and expires on June 30, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for registered before jan 31, 2008, dated October 16, 2007.

Aircraft

Maker
Schaefer Donald E
Model
MA30
Serial number
13DES
Type
Weight-shift control
Power
Two-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 503 SERIES · 52 hp
Seats
2
Year built
1996
Transponder code
A5268D (octal 51223215)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
December 15, 2006
Expires
June 30, 2029
Last FAA action
August 11, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Registered before Jan 31, 2008 · October 16, 2007
FAA region
Alaskan
FAA record id
00294519

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Schaefer Donald E
Type
Individual
Address
PO Box 3618
Soldotna, AK 99669-3618

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.

Earlier use of this number 3

2002-09-26Raytheon Aircraft Company HAWKER 800 · exported to Japan · Valid registration
1996-09-10Piper PA-28-151 · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office
1965-06-12Taylorcraft BC12-D · Valid registration

Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, September 25, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data