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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026Stinson L-5
N48083 is a Stinson L-5, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Texas Air Museum, a corporation in Slaton, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 7, 2023 and expires on May 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated May 5, 1976.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Stinson
- Model
- L-5 · all L-5s 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 Stinson L-5 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
- 42-98801
- 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 · Lycoming 0-435 · 175 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- A5EC25 (octal 51366045)
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 7, 2023
- Expires
- May 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- May 7, 2023
- 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 · May 5, 1976
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00530185
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Texas Air 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
- 12106 Fm 400
Slaton, TX 79364-7564
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Connections how N48083 links to the rest of the register
- Stinson L-5 125 registered
- Stinson 1,730 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube and fabric · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming O-435 88 aircraft with this engine series · 175 hp
- Texas Air Museum 12 aircraft in the fleet
- Slaton, TX 54 aircraft registered in this town
- City Of Slaton/Larry T Neal Memorial · F49
- Texas 29,911 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Stinson L-5 3 airworthiness directives
- Approved modifications for the Stinson L-5 14 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming O-435 4 airworthiness directives
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The public federal record on N48083, 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 Texas Air Museum, a corporation, certificate issued May 7, 2023, expires May 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 42-98801 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N48083 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Fairchild PT-19A-SL (serial 291SL, cancelled November 10, 1948). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N48083. 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 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