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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 30, 2026Focke-Wulf FWP 149D
N149A is a Focke-Wulf FWP 149D, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1960. It has 5 seats. It is registered to Bernis Old Airplane CO INC, a non-citizen corporation in Wilmington, Delaware. The FAA lists the registration as "non-citizen corporation that has not returned its flight-hour reports" (certificate issued December 15, 2022). It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated July 25, 2005.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Focke-Wulf
- Model
- FWP 149D · all FWP 149Ds 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 Focke-Wulf FWP 149 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
- 173
- 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 · Lycoming GO-480 SERIES · 295 hp
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- 1960
- Transponder code
- A0C41F (octal 50142037)
Registration
- Status
- Non-citizen corporation that has not returned its flight-hour reportsFAA registration status code N (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- December 15, 2022
- Expires
- December 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- October 31, 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 · July 25, 2005
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00160479
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bernis Old Airplane CO INC
- Type
- Non-citizen corporationFAA type of owner code 8 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- C/O Delaware Registry LTD
3511 Silverside Rd Ste 105
Wilmington, DE 19810-4902
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 N149A links to the rest of the register
- Focke-Wulf FWP 149 13 registered
- Focke-Wulf 15 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming GO-480 series 246 aircraft with this engine series · 295 hp
- Bernis Old Airplane CO INC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Wilmington, DE 7,375 aircraft registered in this town
- New Castle Airport · ILG
- Delaware 10,965 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming GO-480 series 13 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming GO-480 series 11 reports since 1995
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N149A.json.
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The public federal record on N149A, 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.
Registration status is "Non-citizen corporation that has not returned its flight-hour reports". An aircraft cannot be operated on an invalid or expired registration; resolve this with the FAA before any transaction. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated July 25, 2005, 45 years after the 1960 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 173 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N149A was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Douglas DC3C-S1C3G (serial 12792, cancelled May 6, 1960). 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 N149A. 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 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 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 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data