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N5297

Mono-Aircraft Inc MONOCOUPE

Valid Iowa

N5297 is a Mono-Aircraft Inc MONOCOUPE, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Air Power Museum INC, a corporation in Ottumwa, Iowa. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 21, 2022 and expires on July 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated February 9, 2001.

Aircraft

Maker
Mono-Aircraft Inc
Model
MONOCOUPE
Serial number
18
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
Seats
2
Year built
Not given
Transponder code
A6ADAA (octal 51526652)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
July 21, 2022
Expires
July 31, 2029
Last FAA action
August 18, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · February 9, 2001
FAA region
Central
FAA record id
00562645

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Air Power Museum INC
Type
Corporation
Address
22001 Bluegrass Rd
Ottumwa, IA 52501-8569

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

1938-11-01Travel Air S-2000 · Valid registration
—Grumman G-164A · Triennial registration form was mailed and has not been returned by the Post Office

Records check free · 2 to understand · 2 clear

The public federal record on N5297, 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 Air Power Museum INC, a corporation, certificate issued July 21, 2022, expires July 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

NOTEAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate for normal; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 18 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N5297 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Travel Air S-2000 (serial 497, cancelled November 1, 1938); Grumman G-164A (serial 583, 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 N5297: Accident on August 22, 1985 at Buckeye, AZ: minor injuries, substantial damage. 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

LAX85LA361Accident on August 22, 1985 at Buckeye, AZ: minor injuries, substantial damage.serial on NTSB record: 583

Aircraft on the NTSB record: Grumman G-164A · operated under 137

Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX85LA361 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