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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 30, 2026Thomas Morse Aircraft Corp S4C
N38863 is a Thomas Morse Aircraft Corp S4C, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1917. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Tsi Holdco INC, a corporation in Virginia Beach, Virginia. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 16, 2024 and expires on May 31, 2031. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated February 14, 2019.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Thomas Morse Aircraft Corp
- Model
- S4C · all S4Cs and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube, wood and fabricA welded steel-tube fuselage and wooden wings, all covered in fabric: the construction of the 1930s and 1940s, which makes wood rot and fabric age the inspection items. A biplane of the 1920s and 1930s: steel-tube fuselage, wooden wings, fabric covering. This is how the Thomas Morse Aircraft Corp S4 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
- 38663
- 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 · Lerhone TYPE C · 80 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1917
- Transponder code
- A47C48 (octal 51076110)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- May 16, 2024
- Expires
- May 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- May 16, 2024
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · ExhibitionFAA certificate purpose code 3 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · February 14, 2019
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00281229
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Tsi Holdco INC
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 4455 South Blvd Ste 500
Virginia Beach, VA 23452-1387
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Connections how N38863 links to the rest of the register
- Thomas Morse Aircraft Corp S4 5 registered
- Thomas Morse Aircraft Corp 6 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube, wood and fabric · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lerhone TYPE C 18 aircraft with this engine series · 80 hp
- Tsi Holdco INC 80 aircraft in the fleet
- Virginia Beach, VA 325 aircraft registered in this town
- Virginia 5,972 aircraft registered
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The public federal record on N38863, 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 Tsi Holdco INC, a corporation, certificate issued May 16, 2024, expires May 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated February 14, 2019, 102 years after the 1917 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 38663 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N38863 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper J5A (serial 51083, cancelled June 10, 1976). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N38863. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data