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N5004

Aero Vodochody L-29C

N5004 is an Aero Vodochody L-29C, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turbojet engines. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Frackville, Pennsylvania. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 22, 2002 and expires on March 31, 2028. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.

Aircraft

Maker
Aero Vodochody
Model
L-29C · all L-29Cs and related versions
Serial number
395004
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Turbojet, 1 motor
Seats
2
Year built
Not given
Transponder code
A63CD4 (octal 51436324)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
August 22, 2002
Expires
March 31, 2028
Last FAA action
April 28, 2023
Airworthiness
None on file
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
00003799

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Derr Matthew R
Type
Individual
Address
511 W Nicholas St
Frackville, PA 17931-2021

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.

Earlier use of this number 2

1939-12-26American Eagle A-1 · Valid registration
—Clapp George W SOPWITH TRIPLANE · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office

Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear

The public federal record on N5004, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Derr Matthew R, an individual, certificate issued August 22, 2002, expires March 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate

No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 395004 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N5004 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: American Eagle A-1 (serial 140, cancelled December 26, 1939); Clapp George W SOPWITH TRIPLANE (serial 1001979, cancelled date not given). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

ATTENTIONAccident and incident record

1 NTSB record under N5004: Accident on July 22, 1983 at Allegany, NY: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). Details below. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

NTSB records 1

NYC83FFJ03Accident on July 22, 1983 at Allegany, NY: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal).serial on NTSB record: 1001979

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Sopwith TRIPLANE · operated under 091

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for NYC83FFJ03 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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