Curtiss Wright TRAVEL AIR 12-Q
N496W is a Curtiss Wright TRAVEL AIR 12-Q, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1931. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Western Antique Aeroplane & Automobile Museum, a corporation in Hood River, Oregon. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 5, 2025 and expires on July 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Curtiss Wright
- Model
- TRAVEL AIR 12-Q
- Serial number
- 2023
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1931
- Cruising speed
- 79 mph
- Transponder code
- A62856 (octal 51424126)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 5, 2025
- Expires
- July 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- July 5, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00290705
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Western Antique Aeroplane & Automobile Museum
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 1600 Air Museum Rd
Hood River, OR 97031-9800
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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 N496W, 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 Western Antique Aeroplane & Automobile Museum, a corporation, certificate issued July 5, 2025, expires July 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate; the FAA file gives no certificate date. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 2023 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N496W 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]
2 NTSB records under N496W: Accident on July 27, 2008 at Erie, CO: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on September 7, 1997 at Pendleton, OR: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Curtiss-Wright 12Q · operated under 091
Failure of the tail wheel control cable during landing roll out, which resulted in a loss of control.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DFW08CA200 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Curtiss-Wright TRAVEL AIR 12-Q · operated under 091
the tail wheel assembly spring disconnected.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for SEA97LA207 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