Curtiss Wright TRAVEL AIR 4000
N166V is a Curtiss Wright TRAVEL AIR 4000, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1941. It has 3 seats. It is registered to Plyler Aviation LP, a partnership in Sherman, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 3, 2002 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 3, 1941.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Curtiss Wright
- Model
- TRAVEL AIR 4000 · all TRAVEL AIR 4000s and related versions
- Serial number
- 1401
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1941
- Cruising speed
- 79 mph
- Transponder code
- A109D3 (octal 50204723)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 3, 2002
- Expires
- April 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 5, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · September 3, 1941
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00293594
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Plyler Aviation LP
- Type
- Partnership
- Address
- PO Box 2406
Sherman, TX 75091-2406
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N166V, 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 Plyler Aviation LP, a partnership, certificate issued September 3, 2002, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated September 3, 1941, consistent with the 1941 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1401 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N166V 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 N166V. 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