Ryan Aeronautical ST3KR
N48742 is a Ryan Aeronautical ST3KR, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1941. It has 2 seats. It is registered to American Airpower Heritage Flying Museum, a corporation in Dallas, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 6, 1991 and expires on September 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated April 8, 1959.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Ryan Aeronautical
- Model
- ST3KR · all ST3KRs and related versions
- Serial number
- 1298
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Kinner R5 SERIES · 160 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1941
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- A60599 (octal 51402631)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 6, 1991
- Expires
- September 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · April 8, 1959
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00530415
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- American Airpower Heritage Flying Museum
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 764769
Dallas, TX 75376-4769
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 N48742, 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 American Airpower Heritage Flying Museum, a corporation, certificate issued September 6, 1991, expires September 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 8, 1959, 18 years after the 1941 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 1298 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N48742 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]
1 NTSB record under N48742: Accident on August 25, 2001 at Camarillo, 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 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Ryan ST3KR · operated under 091
The improper fabrication/reassembly and inspection of the engine throttle control linkage during aircraft restoration by the operator, and the failure of the operator's inspection personnel to detect the error during subsequent annual inspections.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX01LA288 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