Curtiss Wright TRAVEL AIR 4000
N4418 is a Curtiss Wright TRAVEL AIR 4000, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1928. It has 3 seats. It is registered to Aerospace Trust Management LLC Trustee, an LLC in Wilmington, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 13, 2014 and expires on March 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated April 20, 1943.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Curtiss Wright
- Model
- TRAVEL AIR 4000 · all TRAVEL AIR 4000s and related versions
- Serial number
- 378
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Wright CURTISS OX5 · 90 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1928
- Cruising speed
- 79 mph
- Transponder code
- A551C4 (octal 51250704)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 13, 2014
- Expires
- March 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- May 27, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · April 20, 1943
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00482404
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Aerospace Trust Management LLC Trustee
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 1013 Centre Rd Ste 403A
Wilmington, DE 19805-1270
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 N4418, 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 Aerospace Trust Management LLC Trustee, an LLC, certificate issued March 13, 2014, expires March 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 20, 1943, 15 years after the 1928 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 378 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N4418 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]
2 NTSB records under N4418: Accident on August 30, 2009 at San Diego, CA: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on April 9, 2008 at Carlsbad, 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Curtiss Wright TRAVEL AIR · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain directional control during the landing roll in crosswind conditions.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR09CA429 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Curtiss-Wright Travel Air 4000 · operated under 091
The pilot's inadequate crosswind compensation and failure to maintain directional control during landing rollout.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX08CA095 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