Dickenson BATHTUB
N538 is a Dickenson BATHTUB, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2007. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Western Antique Aeroplane & Automobile Museum, a corporation in Hood River, Oregon. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 22, 2010 and expires on April 30, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated August 31, 2007.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Dickenson
- Model
- BATHTUB
- Serial number
- 101
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Heath Avn B4 · 25 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 2007
- Transponder code
- A6CE24 (octal 51547044)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 22, 2010
- Expires
- April 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 28, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · August 31, 2007
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00202619
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Western Antique Aeroplane & Automobile Museum
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 1600 Air Museum Rd
Hood River, OR 97031-9800
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 3
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N538, 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 Western Antique Aeroplane & Automobile Museum, a corporation, certificate issued January 22, 2010, expires April 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated August 31, 2007, consistent with the 2007 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 101 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N538 was previously assigned to 3 other aircraft: Rockwell International 112B (serial 538, cancelled May 29, 1991); Sud Aviation SE3130 ALOUETTE II (serial 158, cancelled February 1, 1962); Smith Melville G KR-2 (serial 1, cancelled date not given). 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 N538: Accident on May 5, 2008 at Broadhead, WI: fatal, destroyed (1 fatal). 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: Dickenson BATHTUB · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain adequate airspeed during approach, which resulted in an aerodynamic stall.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI08LA123 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