Stinson L-5
N1252 is a Stinson L-5, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1942. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Iowa Military Aviation Heritage Museum, a corporation in Ankeny, Iowa. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 16, 2015 and expires on July 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 1, 1967.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Stinson
- Model
- L-5 · all L-5s and related versions
- Serial number
- 42-98196
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-435 · 175 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1942
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- A068E3 (octal 50064343)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 16, 2015
- Expires
- July 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 26, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · August 1, 1967
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00910600
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Iowa Military Aviation Heritage Museum
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 3704 SE Convenience Blvd
Ankeny, IA 50021
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 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N1252, 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 Iowa Military Aviation Heritage Museum, a corporation, certificate issued July 16, 2015, expires July 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 1, 1967, 25 years after the 1942 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 42-98196 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N1252 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Waco 10 (serial 864, cancelled November 25, 1929). 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 N1252. 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