Boeing A75N1(PT17)
N55501 is a Boeing A75N1(PT17), a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1943. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Bushnell Aviation INC, a corporation in Wichita Falls, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 7, 2020 and expires on August 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for acrobatic, dated April 14, 1993.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Boeing
- Model
- A75N1(PT17) · all A75N1(PT17)s and related versions
- Serial number
- 75-4740
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor W670 SERIES · 250 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1943
- Cruising speed
- 93 mph
- Transponder code
- A71470 (octal 51612160)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 7, 2020
- Expires
- August 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Acrobatic · April 14, 1993
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00188288
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bushnell Aviation INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 1530 P B Ln # B4958
Wichita Falls, TX 76302-2612
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.
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The public federal record on N55501, 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 Bushnell Aviation INC, a corporation, certificate issued August 7, 2020, expires August 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 14, 1993, 50 years after the 1943 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 75-4740 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N55501 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 N55501: Accident on September 3, 1993 at Delevan, WI: 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: Boeing Stearman A75N1 · operated under 091
the excessive use of brakes and rudder by the pilot-in-command. A factor related to the accident was the pilot-in-command's lack of total experience in this type of aircraft.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI93LA349 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