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.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Columbia Aircraft
- Model
- XJL
- Serial number
- 31399
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Wright C9HD SERIES · 1425 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1954
- Cruising speed
- 287 mph
- Transponder code
- A5E7CC (octal 51363714)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 31, 2018
- Expires
- January 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 14, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00453105
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Yanks Air Museum
- Type
- Corporation
- 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.
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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]
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: Columbia XJ-7 · operated under 091
loss of engine power due to an undetermined cause or causes.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX97LA122 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data