Curtiss Wright TRAVEL AIR 12-W
N11715 is a Curtiss Wright TRAVEL AIR 12-W, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1931. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Western Antique Aeroplane & Automobile Museum, a corporation in Hood River, Oregon. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 8, 2007 and expires on July 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 17, 1975.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Curtiss Wright
- Model
- TRAVEL AIR 12-W
- Serial number
- 12W-2040
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Warner SCARAB SERIES · 125 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1931
- Cruising speed
- 79 mph
- Transponder code
- A048CD (octal 50044315)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 8, 2007
- Expires
- July 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · September 17, 1975
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00141240
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Western Antique Aeroplane & Automobile Museum
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 1600 Air Museum Rd
Hood River, OR 97031-9800
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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 N11715, 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 Western Antique Aeroplane & Automobile Museum, a corporation, certificate issued February 8, 2007, expires July 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated September 17, 1975, 44 years after the 1931 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 12W-2040 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N11715 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 N11715: Accident on July 26, 1998 at Woodland, WA: 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: Curtiss-Wright 12W · operated under 091
The pilot in command misjudged clearance from high vegetation when he landed. Factors include inadequate mowing of high vegetation by airport personnel, providing insufficient clearance for the wingspan of landing airplanes
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 August 27, 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