Travel Air D-4-D
N162V is a Travel Air D-4-D, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1929. It has 3 seats. It is registered to an individual in Rcho Sta Marg, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 18, 2024 and expires on April 30, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated June 21, 2018.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Travel Air
- Model
- D-4-D
- Serial number
- 1391
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming R680-13 · 300 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1929
- Cruising speed
- 79 mph
- Transponder code
- A0FAF7 (octal 50175367)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 18, 2024
- Expires
- April 30, 2031
- Last FAA action
- April 18, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · June 21, 2018
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00405778
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Zeiler Richard Trustee
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 12 Santa Teresa
Rcho Sta Marg, CA 92688-2546
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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 · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N162V, 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 Zeiler Richard Trustee, an individual, certificate issued April 18, 2024, expires April 30, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 21, 2018, 89 years after the 1929 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 1391 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N162V was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Fleet FLEET 16B (serial 284, cancelled December 30, 2010). 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]
1 NTSB record under N162V: Accident on June 19, 2000 at Rochester, NH: 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: Fleet 16B · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain directional control. A factor in the accident was the pilot's lack of experience in the accident airplane make and model.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for NYC00LA173 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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