Winstead Bros Airplane Co WINSTEAD SPECIAL
N2297 is a Winstead Bros Airplane Co WINSTEAD SPECIAL, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1926. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Bethel, Pennsylvania. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 14, 1995 and expires on July 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated March 18, 1999.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Winstead Bros Airplane Co
- Model
- WINSTEAD SPECIAL
- Serial number
- 1
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Wright CURTISS OX5 · 90 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1926
- Transponder code
- A205BD (octal 50402675)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 14, 1995
- Expires
- July 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 26, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · March 18, 1999
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00975410
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Dougherty Paul D JR
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 371 Airport Rd
Bethel, PA 19507-9692
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
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N2297, 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 Dougherty Paul D JR, an individual, certificate issued September 14, 1995, expires July 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated March 18, 1999, 73 years after the 1926 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 1 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N2297 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Stracener Experimental SX (serial SX1, cancelled date not given). 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 N2297: Accident on March 19, 1985 at Fremont, CA: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). 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: Stracener Experimental SX · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX85FA179 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