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N4000A

Wolf Kenneth TRAVEAIR 4000

N4000A is a Wolf Kenneth TRAVEAIR 4000, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Santa Ynez, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 9, 2006 and expires on October 31, 2029. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.

Aircraft

Maker
Wolf Kenneth
Model
TRAVEAIR 4000
Serial number
458010422
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
Seats
2
Year built
Not given
Transponder code
A4AEFA (octal 51127372)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
March 9, 2006
Expires
October 31, 2029
Last FAA action
September 9, 2023
Airworthiness
None on file
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
00464721

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Kunkle James K
Type
Individual
Address
PO Box 1809
Santa Ynez, CA 93460-1809

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.

Earlier use of this number 2

1966-04-21Douglas C54G-DC · Valid registration
—Ayres Corporation S-2R · N-number assigned but not yet registered

Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear

The public federal record on N4000A, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Kunkle James K, an individual, certificate issued March 9, 2006, expires October 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate

No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 458010422 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N4000A was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Douglas C54G-DC (serial 36063, cancelled April 21, 1966); Ayres Corporation S-2R (serial 2460R, cancelled date not given). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N4000A: Accident on May 29, 1986 at Hamer, ID: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

NTSB records 1

SEA86LA134Accident on May 29, 1986 at Hamer, ID: no injuries, substantial damage.serial on NTSB record: 2460R

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Ayres S2R · operated under 137

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for SEA86LA134 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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