Engineering & Research 415-D
N169WS is an Engineering & Research 415-D, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1946. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Shapleigh, Maine. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 13, 2025 and expires on November 30, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 9, 1976.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Engineering & Research
- Model
- 415-D · all 415-Ds and related versions
- Serial number
- 856
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor C85 SERIES · 85 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1946
- Cruising speed
- 90 mph
- Transponder code
- A11522 (octal 50212442)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 13, 2025
- Expires
- November 30, 2032
- Last FAA action
- November 13, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · September 9, 1976
- FAA region
- New England
- FAA record id
- 00972230
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Marcoux George Alfred JR
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 29 County Rd
Shapleigh, ME 04076-4300
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.
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The public federal record on N169WS, 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 Marcoux George Alfred JR, an individual, certificate issued November 13, 2025, expires November 30, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated September 9, 1976, 30 years after the 1946 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 856 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N169WS 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]
1 NTSB record under N169WS: Accident on August 3, 1988 at Auburn-Lewiston, ME: 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: Ercoupe (Eng & Research Corp.) 415C · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for NYC88LA208 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