Interstate S-1A
N37438 is an Interstate S-1A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1942. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Graham, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 3, 2022 and expires on December 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated July 12, 1956.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Interstate
- Model
- S-1A · all S-1As and related versions
- Serial number
- 283
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor A&C65 SERIES · 65 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1942
- Cruising speed
- 77 mph
- Transponder code
- A44589 (octal 51042611)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 3, 2022
- Expires
- December 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · July 12, 1956
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00410024
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Merritt Daniel D
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 11823 264Th St E
Graham, WA 98338-8712
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.
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The public federal record on N37438, 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 Merritt Daniel D, an individual, certificate issued December 3, 2022, expires December 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated July 12, 1956, 14 years after the 1942 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 283 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N37438 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 N37438: Accident on August 1, 1985 at Rock Springs, WY: serious 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: Interstate S-1A · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DEN85LTM05 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