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Columbia Aircraft XJL
N48RW is a Columbia Aircraft XJL, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1954. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Yanks Air Museum, a corporation in Baldwin Park, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 31, 2018 and expires on January 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Columbia Aircraft
- Model
- XJL
- Serial number
- 31399
- 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 C9HD SERIES · 1425 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1954
- Cruising speed
- 287 mph
- Transponder code
- A5E7CC (octal 51363714)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- January 31, 2018
- Expires
- January 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 14, 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
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00453105
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Yanks 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
- 13470 Dalewood St
Baldwin Park, CA 91706-5834
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 N48RW links to the rest of the register
- Columbia Aircraft 1 aircraft on the register
- Wright C9HD series 20 aircraft with this engine series · 1425 hp
- Yanks Air Museum 22 aircraft in the fleet
- Baldwin Park, CA 94 aircraft registered in this town
- California 27,658 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N48RW.json.
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The public federal record on N48RW, 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 Yanks Air Museum, a corporation, certificate issued January 31, 2018, expires January 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate; the FAA file gives no certificate date. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 31399 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N48RW 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 N48RW: Accident on March 13, 1997 at Camp Pendelton, CA: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Columbia XJ-7 · operated under 091
loss of engine power due to an undetermined cause or causes.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 27, 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 27, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data