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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026Boeing E75
N50685 is a Boeing E75, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Texas Air Museum, a corporation in Slaton, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 24, 2023 and expires on June 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated June 29, 1981.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Boeing
- Model
- E75 · all E75s and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube, wood and fabricA welded steel-tube fuselage and wooden wings, all covered in fabric: the construction of the 1930s and 1940s, which makes wood rot and fabric age the inspection items. The Stearman: welded steel-tube fuselage, wooden wings, fabric over all of it. This is how the Boeing E75 Stearman Kaydet family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 75-3845
- 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 R680 · 215 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 93 mph
- Transponder code
- A653C8 (octal 51451710)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- June 24, 2023
- Expires
- June 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- June 24, 2023
- 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 · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · June 29, 1981
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00831165
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Texas Air 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
- 12106 Fm 400
Slaton, TX 79364-7564
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N50685 links to the rest of the register
- Boeing E75 Stearman Kaydet 343 registered
- Boeing 6,672 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube, wood and fabric · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming R680 218 aircraft with this engine series · 215 hp
- Texas Air Museum 12 aircraft in the fleet
- Slaton, TX 54 aircraft registered in this town
- City Of Slaton/Larry T Neal Memorial · F49
- Texas 29,911 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Boeing E75 Stearman Kaydet 6 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Boeing E75 Stearman Kaydet 5 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Boeing E75 Stearman Kaydet 45 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming R680 5 airworthiness directives
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The public federal record on N50685, 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 Texas Air Museum, a corporation, certificate issued June 24, 2023, expires June 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 75-3845 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N50685 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N50685. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data