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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 5, 2026Curtiss 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.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Curtiss Wright
- Model
- TRAVEL AIR 12-Q
- Serial number
- 2023
- 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 0-320 SERIES · 180 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1931
- Cruising speed
- 79 mph
- Transponder code
- A62856 (octal 51424126)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- July 5, 2025
- Expires
- July 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- July 5, 2025
- 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
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00290705
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Western Antique Aeroplane & Automobile 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
- 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.
Connections how N496W links to the rest of the register
- Curtiss Wright 229 aircraft on the register
- Lycoming O-320 series 27,303 aircraft with this engine series · 180 hp
- Western Antique Aeroplane & Automobile Museum 148 aircraft in the fleet
- Hood River, OR 337 aircraft registered in this town
- Ken Jernstedt Airfield · 4S2
- Oregon 7,008 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming O-320 series 29 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming O-320 series 349 reports since 1995
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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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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.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Curtiss-Wright TRAVEL AIR 12-Q · operated under 091
the tail wheel assembly spring disconnected.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 5, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 5, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data