Engineering & Research ERCOUPE 415-C
N3431H is an Engineering & Research ERCOUPE 415-C, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1946. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Westminster, South Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 28, 2020 and expires on August 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated June 12, 1956.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Engineering & Research
- Model
- ERCOUPE 415-C · all ERCOUPE 415-Cs and related versions
- Serial number
- 4056
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor A&C75 SERIES · 75 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1946
- Cruising speed
- 90 mph
- Transponder code
- A3CAF6 (octal 50745366)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 28, 2020
- Expires
- August 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · June 12, 1956
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00162513
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Buchanan Richard C
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 215 Jenkins Bridge Rd
Westminster, SC 29693-4605
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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 N3431H, 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 Buchanan Richard C, an individual, certificate issued August 28, 2020, expires August 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 12, 1956, 10 years after the 1946 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 4056 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N3431H 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 N3431H: Accident on August 14, 1985 at Del Mar, NY: 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: Ercoupe (Eng & Research Corp.) ERCOUPE 415-C · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for NYC85LA211 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