Aeronca 11AC
N4453P is an Aeronca 11AC, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Housel LLC DBA, an LLC in Palm Harbor, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 25, 2023 and expires on September 30, 2030. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Aeronca
- Model
- 11AC · all 11ACs and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube and fabricThe fuselage is a welded steel-tube frame covered in fabric, with metal or wooden wing spars under fabric-covered wings; the fabric is replaced every few decades. This is how the Aeronca 11 Chief family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 11AC318
- 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
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 75 mph
- Transponder code
- A55FFF (octal 51257777)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- September 25, 2023
- Expires
- September 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- September 25, 2023
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00817261
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Housel LLC DBA
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 2652 Wildwood Ln
Palm Harbor, FL 34684-1561 - Co-owners
- Cove Helicopter
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
Connections how N4453P links to the rest of the register
- Aeronca 11 Chief 741 registered
- Aeronca 3,953 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube and fabric · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Housel LLC DBA 2 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Holds an FAA aircraft dealer certificate · valid to July 20, 2027
- Palm Harbor, FL 61 aircraft registered in this town
- Florida 21,706 aircraft registered
- Approved modifications for the Aeronca 11 Chief 14 supplemental type certificates
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N4453P.json.
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The public federal record on N4453P, 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 Housel LLC DBA, an LLC, certificate issued September 25, 2023, expires September 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
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]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 11AC318 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N4453P was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Piper PA-23-160 (serial 23-1970, cancelled April 14, 1970); Prince Kenneth D RAND KR-2 (serial 4353, cancelled date not given). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N4453P: Accident on July 22, 2014 at Flushing, MI: minor 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: Aeronca 11AC · operated under 091
The pilot receiving instruction’s failure to maintain directional control during the takeoff roll. Contributing to the accident was the flight instructor not having access to brake controls, which limited his ability to regain directional control at slower ground speeds.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data