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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 11, 2026Aeronca KCA
N1938K is an Aeronca KCA, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Vermont, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 23, 2019 and expires on December 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated January 14, 1980.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Aeronca
- Model
- KCA · all KCAs and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube and fabricThe fuselage is a welded steel-tube frame covered in fabric, with metal or wooden wing spars under fabric-covered wings; the fabric is replaced every few decades. This is how the Aeronca KCA 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
- KCA-35
- 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 · Cont Motor A50 SERIES · 50 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 71 mph
- Transponder code
- A176CA (octal 50273312)
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 23, 2019
- Expires
- December 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · January 14, 1980
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00752940
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Haney Benjimen A
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 510 N West St
Vermont, IL 61484
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N1938K links to the rest of the register
- Aeronca KCA 8 registered
- Aeronca 3,953 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube and fabric · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Continental A50 series 26 aircraft with this engine series · 50 hp
- Vermont, IL 1 aircraft registered in this town
- Illinois 8,072 aircraft registered
- Approved modifications for the Aeronca KCA 6 supplemental type certificates
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The public federal record on N1938K, 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 Haney Benjimen A, an individual, certificate issued December 23, 2019, expires December 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial KCA-35 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N1938K 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 N1938K: Accident on February 28, 1993 at Bunnell, FL: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Aeronca KCA · operated under 091
IMPROPER PROCEDURES BY THE AERONCA PILOT FOR FAILURE TO 'S' TURN WHILE TAXIING TO INSURE THAT THERE WERE NO OBSTRUCTIONS AHEAD.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 11, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 11, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 11, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 11, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data