Howard Aircraft DGA-15P
N29457 is a Howard Aircraft DGA-15P, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1943. It has 5 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Sonoma, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 29, 2026 and expires on July 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated September 25, 1956.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Howard Aircraft
- Model
- DGA-15P · all DGA-15Ps and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube, wood and fabricA welded steel-tube fuselage and wooden wings, all covered in fabric: the construction of the 1930s and 1940s, which makes wood rot and fabric age the inspection items. A steel-tube fuselage and wooden wings under fabric. This is how the Howard Aircraft DGA-15 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
- 782
- 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 · P&W R-985 SERIES · 450 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- 1943
- Cruising speed
- 150 mph
- Transponder code
- A3077D (octal 50603575)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- July 29, 2026
- Expires
- July 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- July 29, 2026
- 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 · September 25, 1956
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00412011
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bowe Walter C Trustee
- Type
- Co-ownedFAA type of owner code 4 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 19500 7Th St e
Sonoma, CA 95476-7201 - Co-owners
- Mendieta Carlene A Trustee
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
Connections how N29457 links to the rest of the register
- Howard Aircraft DGA-15 97 registered
- Howard Aircraft 109 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube, wood and fabric · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Pratt & Whitney R-985 series 1,593 aircraft with this engine series · 450 hp
- Sonoma, CA 157 aircraft registered in this town
- Sonoma Skypark Airport · 0Q9
- California 27,713 aircraft registered
- Failure reports filed on the Howard Aircraft DGA-15 3 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Howard Aircraft DGA-15 80 supplemental type certificates
- Failure reports on the Pratt & Whitney R-985 series 80 reports since 1995
- Where N29457 is now · Last seen yesterday at 12:25 pm.
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The public federal record on N29457, 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 Bowe Walter C Trustee, a co-owned, certificate issued July 29, 2026, expires July 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated September 25, 1956, 13 years after the 1943 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 782 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N29457 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 177 (serial 17700900, cancelled March 14, 1984). 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 N29457: Accident on October 31, 1982 at North Little Ro, AR: serious injuries, destroyed. 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: Cessna 177 · operated under 091
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 3, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data