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N57E

Howard Aircraft DGA-11

N57E is a Howard Aircraft DGA-11, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1938. It has 5 seats. It is registered to an individual in Santa Paula, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 8, 2015 and expires on May 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated June 12, 1961.

Aircraft

Maker
Howard Aircraft
Model
DGA-11 · all DGA-11s and related versions
Serial number
88
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · P&W R-985 SERIES · 450 hp
Seats
5
Year built
1938
Cruising speed
153 mph
Transponder code
A74C74 (octal 51646164)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
May 8, 2015
Expires
May 31, 2028
Last FAA action
May 12, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · June 12, 1961
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
00500466

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Terry Michael R Trustee
Type
Individual
Address
800 E Santa Maria St Unit D
Santa Paula, CA 93060-3522

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.

Earlier use of this number 2

1965-05-18Howard Aircraft DGA-11 · Valid registration
1930-10-18Dehavilland DH-4B · Valid registration

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N57E, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Terry Michael R Trustee, an individual, certificate issued May 8, 2015, expires May 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 12, 1961, 23 years after the 1938 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]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 88 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N57E was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Howard Aircraft DGA-11 (serial 87, cancelled May 18, 1965); Dehavilland DH-4B (serial 395, cancelled October 18, 1930). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N57E. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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