Grumman TBM-3E
N53503 is a Grumman TBM-3E, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1948. It has 2 seats. It is registered to American Airpower Heritage Flying Museum, a corporation in Dallas, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 6, 1991 and expires on July 31, 2028. It holds a limited airworthiness certificate, dated August 24, 2011.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Grumman
- Model
- TBM-3E · all TBM-3Es and related versions
- Serial number
- 53503
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Wright R-2600 SER · 1700 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1948
- Cruising speed
- 266 mph
- Transponder code
- A6C574 (octal 51542564)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 6, 1991
- Expires
- July 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 26, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Limited · August 24, 2011
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00572865
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- American Airpower Heritage Flying Museum
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 764769
Dallas, TX 75376-4769
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 N53503, 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 American Airpower Heritage Flying Museum, a corporation, certificate issued September 6, 1991, expires July 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 24, 2011, 63 years after the 1948 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 53503 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N53503 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Taylorcraft L-2B (serial L-4875, cancelled January 20, 1955). 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 N53503: Accident on March 17, 2014 at Glendale, 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: Grumman TMB-3E · operated under 091
The pilot inadvertently raised the landing gear lever rather than the adjacent flap level while exiting the runway which resulted in the retraction of the left main landing gear.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR14CA143 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