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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026Ercoupe 415-C
N37139 is an Ercoupe 415-C, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1956. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Ottawa, Kansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 26, 2024 and expires on August 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated October 16, 1956.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Ercoupe
- Model
- 415-C · all 415-Cs and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. Fabric-covered outer wings on the early ones. This is how the Ercoupe 415 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
- 106
- 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
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1956
- Cruising speed
- 90 mph
- Transponder code
- A43A65 (octal 51035145)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- August 26, 2024
- Expires
- August 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- August 26, 2024
- 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 · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · October 16, 1956
- FAA region
- CentralFAA region code 3 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00715342
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bowers Robert D
- 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
- 4392 Louisiana Rd
Ottawa, KS 66067-8725 - Co-owners
- Bowers Jane I
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.
Connections how N37139 links to the rest of the register
- Ercoupe 415 793 registered
- Ercoupe 833 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Ottawa, KS 16 aircraft registered in this town
- Ottawa Municipal · OWI
- Kansas 5,738 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N37139.json.
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The public federal record on N37139, 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 Bowers Robert D, a co-owned, certificate issued August 26, 2024, expires August 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated October 16, 1956, consistent with the 1956 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 106 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N37139 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 N37139: Accident on May 31, 1993 at Derby, KS: minor injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Ercoupe (Eng & Research Corp.) 415C · operated under 091
THE PILOT IN COMMAND'S MISJUDGED APPROACH TO LANDING.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data