Aeronca 50-F
N23954 is an Aeronca 50-F, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1939. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Newell Kenneth L, a partnership in Wichita, Kansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 7, 1984 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated June 17, 1974.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Aeronca
- Model
- 50-F · all 50-Fs and related versions
- Serial number
- F6189
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor A&C65 SERIES · 65 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1939
- Cruising speed
- 75 mph
- Transponder code
- A22D13 (octal 50426423)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 7, 1984
- Expires
- April 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 20, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · June 17, 1974
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00483473
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Newell Kenneth L
- Type
- Partnership
- Address
- 2310 N Covington St
Wichita, KS 67205-2182 - Co-owners
- Pearson Jeffrey W
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 N23954, 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 Newell Kenneth L, a partnership, certificate issued May 7, 1984, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 17, 1974, 35 years after the 1939 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 F6189 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N23954 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 N23954: Accident on May 30, 1989 at Ontario, CA: 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: Aeronca 50F · operated under 091
THE PILOT'S INABILITY TO COMPENSATE FOR EXISTING WIND CONDITIONS, RESULTING IN THE INABILITY TO MAINTAIN A CLIMB.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX89LA209 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