Curtiss Wright P-40N
N1316S is a Curtiss Wright P-40N, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Sky West Aviation INC Trustee, a corporation in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 8, 2018 and expires on August 31, 2028. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Curtiss Wright
- Model
- P-40N · all P-40Ns and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Curtiss Wright P-40 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 42-106109
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 263 mph
- Transponder code
- A08223 (octal 50101043)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- August 8, 2018
- Expires
- August 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 3, 2023
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01280318
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sky West Aviation INC Trustee
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 2523 Stieglitz Ave SE
Albuquerque, NM 87106-9605
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
Connections how N1316S links to the rest of the register
- Curtiss Wright P-40 39 registered
- Curtiss Wright 229 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Sky West Aviation INC Trustee 287 aircraft in the fleet
- Albuquerque, NM 1,181 aircraft registered in this town
- Albuquerque International Sunport · ABQ
- Double Eagle II Airport · AEG
- New Mexico 3,108 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N1316S.json.
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N1316S, 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 Sky West Aviation INC Trustee, a corporation, certificate issued August 8, 2018, expires August 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 42-106109 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N1316S was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 182P (serial 18264880, cancelled September 7, 2007). 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]
2 NTSB records under N1316S: Accident on August 23, 2004 at Hillsboro, OR: minor injuries, substantial damage. Accident on August 30, 1994 at Yamhill, OR: 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 182P · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain aircraft directional control during landing roll. A contributing factor was the right-quartering tail wind.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 182P · operated under 091
THE PILOT'S FAILURE TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL. A FACTOR TO THE ACCIDENT WAS: AN INADEQUATE RECOVERY FROM A BOUNCED LANDING.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data