Bell P39-Q6
N139RL is a Bell P39-Q6, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1942. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Air Legends Foundation, a corporation in San Antonio, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 11, 2023 and expires on December 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated May 28, 2010.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- P39-Q6 · all P39-Q6s 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. The Airacobra fighter. This is how the Bell P-39 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
- 26E-397
- 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 · Allison V1710 SER · 1500 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1942
- Transponder code
- A09E22 (octal 50117042)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- December 11, 2023
- Expires
- December 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- December 11, 2023
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · ExhibitionFAA certificate purpose code 3 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · May 28, 2010
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00393752
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Air Legends Foundation
- 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
- 10101 Reunion Pl Ste 1000
San Antonio, TX 78216-4157
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N139RL links to the rest of the register
- Bell P-39 5 registered
- Bell 3,082 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Allison (Rolls-Royce) V1710 series 70 aircraft with this engine series · 1500 hp
- Air Legends Foundation 11 aircraft in the fleet
- San Antonio, TX 790 aircraft registered in this town
- Kelly Field · SKF
- San Antonio International · SAT
- Stinson Municipal · SSF
- Boerne Stage Airfield · 5C1
- 5 more landing places in town
- Texas 29,911 aircraft registered
- Failure reports on the Allison (Rolls-Royce) V1710 series 5 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N139RL, 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 Air Legends Foundation, a corporation, certificate issued December 11, 2023, expires December 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 28, 2010, 68 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 26E-397 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N139RL 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N139RL. 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 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