Howard Aircraft DGA-15P
N5553N is a Howard Aircraft DGA-15P, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 5 seats. It is registered to Nighthawk Air Systems INC, a corporation in Marion, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 24, 2020 and expires on February 28, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated May 5, 1956.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Howard Aircraft
- Model
- DGA-15P · all DGA-15Ps and related versions
- Serial number
- 978
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · P&W R-985 SERIES · 450 hp
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 150 mph
- Transponder code
- A714CC (octal 51612314)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 24, 2020
- Expires
- February 28, 2027
- Last FAA action
- January 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · May 5, 1956
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00553595
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Nighthawk Air Systems INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 102 Windsock Ln
Marion, TX 78124-6564
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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 N5553N, 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 Nighthawk Air Systems INC, a corporation, certificate issued February 24, 2020, expires February 28, 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 978 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N5553N 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]
2 NTSB records under N5553N: Accident on July 16, 1984 at Tracy, CA: no injuries, destroyed. Accident on March 22, 1982 at Livermore, CA: 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Howard Aircraft Corp. DGA-15P · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX84LA398 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Howard Aircraft Corp. DGA-15P · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX82DA116 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