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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 30, 2026Aeronca 0-58B
N46480 is an Aeronca 0-58B, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Alfred & Lois Kelch Aviation Museum, a corporation in Brodhead, Wisconsin. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 14, 2024 and expires on February 28, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated June 11, 1956.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Aeronca
- Model
- 0-58B · all 0-58Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 058B-8793
- 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
- 71 mph
- Transponder code
- A5AC00 (octal 51326000)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- February 14, 2024
- Expires
- February 28, 2031
- Last FAA action
- February 14, 2024
- 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 · June 11, 1956
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00713214
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Alfred & Lois Kelch Aviation Museum
- 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
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.
Connections how N46480 links to the rest of the register
- Alfred & Lois Kelch Aviation Museum 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Brodhead, WI 53 aircraft registered in this town
- Brodhead Airport · C37
- Wisconsin 6,164 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N46480.json.
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The public federal record on N46480, 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 & Lois Kelch Aviation Museum, a corporation, certificate issued February 14, 2024, expires February 28, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 058B-8793 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N46480 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 N46480. 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 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data