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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026General Aircraft Co THUNDERBIRD W-14
N5830 is a General Aircraft Co THUNDERBIRD W-14, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1928. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Wayne, Pennsylvania. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 17, 2008 and expires on January 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated August 24, 2009.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- General Aircraft Co
- Model
- THUNDERBIRD W-14
- Serial number
- 2812
- 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 · Curtiss OX-5 · 90 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1928
- Transponder code
- A78365 (octal 51701545)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- December 17, 2008
- Expires
- January 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · ExhibitionFAA certificate purpose code 3 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · August 24, 2009
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00200628
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Jenkins George Merritt
- 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
- 131 Iron Works Way
Wayne, PA 19087-4200
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N5830 links to the rest of the register
- General Aircraft Co 1 aircraft on the register
- Curtiss OX-5 14 aircraft with this engine series · 90 hp
- Wayne, PA 47 aircraft registered in this town
- Pennsylvania 6,182 aircraft registered
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The public federal record on N5830, 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 Jenkins George Merritt, an individual, certificate issued December 17, 2008, expires January 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 24, 2009, 81 years after the 1928 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 2812 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N5830 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N5830. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data