Travel Air 4000
N3945 is a Travel Air 4000, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1926. It has 3 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Prunedale, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 26, 2018 and expires on July 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated May 7, 1971.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Travel Air
- Model
- 4000 · all 4000s and related versions
- Serial number
- 319
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Wright CURTISS OX5 · 90 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1926
- Cruising speed
- 79 mph
- Transponder code
- A494AC (octal 51112254)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 26, 2018
- Expires
- July 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 26, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · May 7, 1971
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00740694
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bikle Michael Trustee
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 8929 Hidden Canyon Rd
Prunedale, CA 93907-9219 - Co-owners
- Bikle Darcy Trustee
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 N3945, 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 Bikle Michael Trustee, a co-owned, certificate issued July 26, 2018, expires July 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 7, 1971, 45 years after the 1926 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 319 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N3945 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 N3945: Accident on May 17, 2008 at Hollister, 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: Travel Air 4000 · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain physical clearance from the other airplane while taxiing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX08LA146 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
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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data