Curtiss Wright TRAVEL AIR 12-Q
N439W is a Curtiss Wright TRAVEL AIR 12-Q, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1931. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Alfred And Lois Kelch Aviation Museum INC, a corporation in Brodhead, Wisconsin. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 11, 2012 and expires on June 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated June 27, 1989.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Curtiss Wright
- Model
- TRAVEL AIR 12-Q
- Serial number
- 2005
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Dehav Eng GIPSY MAJOR · 140 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1931
- Cruising speed
- 79 mph
- Transponder code
- A54681 (octal 51243201)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 11, 2012
- Expires
- June 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 20, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · June 27, 1989
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00362294
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Alfred And Lois Kelch Aviation Museum INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 122
Brodhead, WI 53520-0122
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 N439W, 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 Alfred And Lois Kelch Aviation Museum INC, a corporation, certificate issued June 11, 2012, expires June 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 27, 1989, 58 years after the 1931 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 2005 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N439W 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N439W. 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 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