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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 10, 2026Dehavilland DHC-1 CHIPMUNK
N53941 is a Dehavilland DHC-1 CHIPMUNK, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1950. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Wb650 Raf Chipmunk LLC, an LLC in Madison, Alabama. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 12, 2014 and expires on November 30, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated April 29, 1980. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Dehavilland
- Model
- DHC-1 CHIPMUNK · all DHC-1 CHIPMUNKs and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Dehavilland DHC-1 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
- 01-0088
- 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 · Dehav Eng GIPSY MAJOR · 140 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1950
- Cruising speed
- 93 mph
- Transponder code
- A6D4DA (octal 51552332)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- November 12, 2014
- Expires
- November 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- April 1, 2023
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · ExhibitionFAA certificate purpose code 3 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · April 29, 1980
- FAA region
- SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00332985
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Wb650 Raf Chipmunk LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 115 Kenworth Ct
Madison, AL 35758-7743
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 1
Earlier use of this number 1
Connections how N53941 links to the rest of the register
- Dehavilland DHC-1 105 registered
- Dehavilland 861 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- de Havilland Engine GIPSY MAJOR 89 aircraft with this engine series · 140 hp
- Wb650 Raf Chipmunk LLC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Madison, AL 109 aircraft registered in this town
- Alabama 4,354 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Dehavilland DHC-1 5 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Dehavilland DHC-1 15 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Dehavilland DHC-1 65 supplemental type certificates
- Where N53941 is now · Last seen Saturday at 11:07 am.
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The public federal record on N53941, 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 Wb650 Raf Chipmunk LLC, an LLC, certificate issued November 12, 2014, expires November 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 29, 1980, 30 years after the 1950 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 01-0088 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N53941 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Fairchild M-62A (serial T41-1126, cancelled December 22, 1948). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]
1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (November 9, 2026). [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N53941. 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 November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 10, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data