Curtiss Wright TRAVEL AIR 4000
N3242 is a Curtiss Wright TRAVEL AIR 4000, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1927. It has 3 seats. It is registered to Ancient And Honorable Aeroplane CO LLC, an LLC in Waban, Massachusetts. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 13, 2022 and expires on May 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated April 30, 1976.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Curtiss Wright
- Model
- TRAVEL AIR 4000 · all TRAVEL AIR 4000s and related versions
- Serial number
- 256
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming R680 · 215 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1927
- Cruising speed
- 79 mph
- Transponder code
- A37FCA (octal 50677712)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 13, 2022
- Expires
- May 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 11, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · April 30, 1976
- FAA region
- New England
- FAA record id
- 00891893
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Ancient And Honorable Aeroplane CO LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 99 Pine Ridge Rd
Waban, MA 02468-1616
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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 N3242, 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 Ancient And Honorable Aeroplane CO LLC, an LLC, certificate issued May 13, 2022, expires May 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 30, 1976, 49 years after the 1927 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 256 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N3242 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 N3242: Accident on November 22, 2016 at San Diego, 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: Curtiss Wright TRAVEL AIR 4000 · operated under 091
The pilot’s failure to see and avoid the airplane stopped ahead of him during taxi.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for GAA17CA077 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data