Lankenau Kip F SOPWITH TYPE 9400
N5539 is a Lankenau Kip F SOPWITH TYPE 9400, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 2019. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Dallas, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 3, 2019 and expires on May 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated July 5, 2019.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Lankenau Kip F
- Model
- SOPWITH TYPE 9400
- Serial number
- N5539
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2019
- Transponder code
- A70E23 (octal 51607043)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 3, 2019
- Expires
- May 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 4, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Amateur built · July 5, 2019
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 01296465
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Lankenau Kip F
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 2127 Crown Rd
Dallas, TX 75229-2005
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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
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The public federal record on N5539, 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 Lankenau Kip F, an individual, certificate issued May 3, 2019, expires May 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built, dated July 5, 2019, consistent with the 2019 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial N5539 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N5539 was previously assigned to 3 other aircraft: Lockheed 188C (serial 1091, cancelled April 13, 1992); Lockheed 188C (serial 188C1080, cancelled July 13, 1970); Swallow SWALLOW (serial 942, cancelled March 2, 1929). 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 N5539: Accident on July 3, 2020 at Van Alstyne, TX: minor injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Sopwith Type 9400 · operated under 091
An inflight loss of aileron control due to movement of a control connector.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN20LA259 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data