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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 28, 2026Curtiss Wright TRAVEL AIR 4000
N460N is a Curtiss Wright TRAVEL AIR 4000, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1929. It has 3 seats. It is registered to an individual in Northwood, North Dakota. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 3, 2002 and expires on May 31, 2027. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Curtiss Wright
- Model
- TRAVEL AIR 4000 · all TRAVEL AIR 4000s and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube, wood and fabricA welded steel-tube fuselage and wooden wings, all covered in fabric: the construction of the 1930s and 1940s, which makes wood rot and fabric age the inspection items. A biplane of the 1920s and 1930s: steel-tube fuselage, wooden wings, fabric covering. This is how the Curtiss Wright TRAVEL AIR 4000 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
- 1355
- 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 · Wright 760A B D E&ET · 250 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1929
- Cruising speed
- 79 mph
- Transponder code
- A59AC7 (octal 51315307)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- May 3, 2002
- Expires
- May 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- RestrictedFAA airworthiness class code 3 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Agriculture and pest controlFAA certificate purpose code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00583034
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Altendorf Richard C
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- PO Box 521
Northwood, ND 58267-0521
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N460N links to the rest of the register
- Curtiss Wright TRAVEL AIR 4000 55 registered
- Curtiss Wright 229 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube, wood and fabric · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Wright 760A B D E&ET 68 aircraft with this engine series · 250 hp
- Northwood, ND 11 aircraft registered in this town
- Northwood Muni/Vince Field · 4V4
- North Dakota 2,492 aircraft registered
- Approved modifications for the Curtiss Wright TRAVEL AIR 4000 15 supplemental type certificates
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The public federal record on N460N, 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 Altendorf Richard C, an individual, certificate issued May 3, 2002, expires May 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Restricted certificate for agriculture and pest control; the FAA file gives no certificate date. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1355 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N460N 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 N460N. 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 28, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 28, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 28, 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 28, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data