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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 28, 2026Polson Thor POLSON SPECIAL
N271 is a Polson Thor POLSON SPECIAL, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1917. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Wayne, Pennsylvania. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 7, 2009 and expires on May 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated November 13, 2007.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Polson Thor
- Model
- POLSON SPECIAL
- Serial number
- 102
- 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 · Curtiss OX-5 · 90 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1917
- Transponder code
- A2AA32 (octal 50525062)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- January 7, 2009
- Expires
- May 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 4, 2023
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · ExhibitionFAA certificate purpose code 3 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · November 13, 2007
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00202639
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Jenkins George Merrit
- 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
- 131 Iron Works Way
Wayne, PA 19087-4200
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 2
Connections how N271 links to the rest of the register
- Polson Thor 1 aircraft on the register
- Curtiss OX-5 14 aircraft with this engine series · 90 hp
- Wayne, PA 47 aircraft registered in this town
- Pennsylvania 6,183 aircraft registered
- Report filed on this aircraft: Switch, inoperative · 2006-08-10
- Report filed on this aircraft: Actuator, malfunctioned · 2006-03-01
- Report filed on this aircraft: Fire Loop, defective · 2006-03-01
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N271.json.
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The public federal record on N271, 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 Jenkins George Merrit, an individual, certificate issued January 7, 2009, expires May 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated November 13, 2007, 90 years after the 1917 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 102 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N271 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Beech 65-B80 (serial LD-288, cancelled January 9, 1978); North American SNJ-4 (serial 1135, cancelled June 30, 1947). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N271. 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 28, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 28, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 28, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 28, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data