Stinson L-5E
N31853 is a Stinson L-5E, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1944. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Aeronautical Educational Foundation, a corporation in Stockton, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 12, 2026 and expires on February 28, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated May 22, 1992.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Stinson
- Model
- L-5E · all L-5Es and related versions
- Serial number
- 44-17605
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1944
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- A367AC (octal 50663654)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 12, 2026
- Expires
- February 28, 2033
- Last FAA action
- February 12, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · May 22, 1992
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00083208
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Aeronautical Educational Foundation
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 7430 C E Dixon St
Stockton, CA 95206-4915
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 N31853, 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 Aeronautical Educational Foundation, a corporation, certificate issued February 12, 2026, expires February 28, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 22, 1992, 48 years after the 1944 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 44-17605 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N31853 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Bell 214ST (serial 28135, cancelled February 14, 1990). 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 N31853: Accident on July 21, 1995 at Elko, NV: minor 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: Stinson L-5E · operated under 091
the failure of the student pilot to maintain directional control and the inadequate supervision by the instructor pilot in taking timely corrective action.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX95LA260 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