Aeronca 15AC
N1003H is an Aeronca 15AC, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1948. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Light Winds Aviation LLC, an LLC in Bay City, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 31, 2015 and expires on March 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated October 3, 1955.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Aeronca
- Model
- 15AC · all 15ACs and related versions
- Serial number
- 15AC-5
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor C145 SERIES · 145 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1948
- Cruising speed
- 85 mph
- Transponder code
- A0077D (octal 50003575)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 31, 2015
- Expires
- March 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 28, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · October 3, 1955
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00820110
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Light Winds Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 709 Bay Rd
Bay City, MI 48706-1931
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.
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The public federal record on N1003H, 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 Light Winds Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued March 31, 2015, expires March 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated October 3, 1955, 7 years after the 1948 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 15AC-5 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N1003H 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 N1003H: Accident on June 6, 1989 at Plainwell, MI: minor 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: Aeronca 15AC · operated under 091
THE PILOT'S DECISION TO FLY THE AIRPLANE WHICH HAD NOT BEEN PROPERLY MAINTAINED WHICH RESULTED IN THE FUEL SYSTEM BLOCKAGE.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI89DEM02 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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