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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 26, 2026Curtiss 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.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Curtiss Wright
- Model
- TRAVEL AIR 12-Q
- Serial number
- 2005
- 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 · Dehav Eng GIPSY MAJOR · 140 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1931
- Cruising speed
- 79 mph
- Transponder code
- A54681 (octal 51243201)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- June 11, 2012
- Expires
- June 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 20, 2026
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · June 27, 1989
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00362294
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Alfred and Lois Kelch Aviation Museum 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
- PO Box 122
Brodhead, WI 53520-0122
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N439W links to the rest of the register
- Curtiss Wright 229 aircraft on the register
- de Havilland Engine GIPSY MAJOR 89 aircraft with this engine series · 140 hp
- Alfred And Lois Kelch Aviation Museum INC 9 aircraft in the fleet
- Brodhead, WI 52 aircraft registered in this town
- Brodhead Airport · C37
- Wisconsin 6,165 aircraft registered
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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 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 26, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data