Boeing A75N1(PT17)
N49955 is a Boeing A75N1(PT17), a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1942. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Fargo, North Dakota. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 12, 2013 and expires on December 31, 2029. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated May 29, 1956.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Boeing
- Model
- A75N1(PT17) · all A75N1(PT17)s and related versions
- Serial number
- 75-2975
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · P&W R-985 SERIES · 450 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1942
- Cruising speed
- 93 mph
- Transponder code
- A634AC (octal 51432254)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 12, 2013
- Expires
- December 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Agriculture and pest control · May 29, 1956
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00460815
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Ness Bernie
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1557 University Dr S
Fargo, ND 58103-4169
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 N49955, 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 Ness Bernie, an individual, certificate issued December 12, 2013, expires December 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 29, 1956, 14 years after the 1942 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 75-2975 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N49955 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 N49955: Accident on May 27, 1998 at West Fargo, ND: 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: Boeing Stearman A75-N1 · operated under 137
the pilot's failure to assure an adequate fuel supply in order to complete the flight. A factor associated with the accident was the soft terrain on which the forced landing was made.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI98LA175 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