Dehavilland TIGER MOTH DH 82A
N5050C is a Dehavilland TIGER MOTH DH 82A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1944. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Tiger Moth LLC, an LLC in Huntington, Indiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 10, 2021 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal; utility, dated February 21, 1974.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Dehavilland
- Model
- TIGER MOTH DH 82A · all TIGER MOTH DH 82As and related versions
- Serial number
- NL875
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Dehav Eng GIPSY MAJOR · 140 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1944
- Cruising speed
- 81 mph
- Transponder code
- A64EDE (octal 51447336)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 10, 2021
- Expires
- April 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 5, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal; Utility · February 21, 1974
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00561115
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Tiger Moth LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 1355 Waco Dr
Huntington, IN 46750-0008
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 1
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N5050C, 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 Tiger Moth LLC, an LLC, certificate issued April 10, 2021, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated February 21, 1974, 30 years after the 1944 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 NL875 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N5050C was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Beech B35 (serial D2379, cancelled March 29, 1956). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N5050C: Accident on July 11, 1998 at Sedona, AZ: 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: De Havilland DH-82A · operated under 091
The failure of the pilot to maintain a visual clearance with the trees.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX98LA227 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