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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 30, 2026Boeing A75N1(PT17)
N55290 is a Boeing A75N1(PT17), a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Clarksdale, Mississippi. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 18, 2011 and expires on June 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated December 9, 1980.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Boeing
- Model
- A75N1(PT17) · all A75N1(PT17)s 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 A75 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
- 75-4345
- 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
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 93 mph
- Transponder code
- A70A85 (octal 51605205)
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 18, 2011
- Expires
- June 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 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 · December 9, 1980
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00455580
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Shannon Frances W
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- PO Box 392
Clarksdale, MS 38614-0392
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N55290 links to the rest of the register
- Boeing A75 Stearman Kaydet 978 registered
- Boeing 6,676 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
- Clarksdale, MS 20 aircraft registered in this town
- Fletcher Field · CKM
- Mississippi 2,601 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Boeing A75 Stearman Kaydet 6 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Boeing A75 Stearman Kaydet 18 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Boeing A75 Stearman Kaydet 104 supplemental type certificates
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The public federal record on N55290, 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 Shannon Frances W, an individual, certificate issued June 18, 2011, expires June 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 75-4345 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N55290 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]
1 NTSB record under N55290: Accident on August 24, 1986 at Dublin, MS: minor injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Boeing PT-17 · operated under 091
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data