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Custer Channel Wing CCW-5
N5855V is a Custer Channel Wing CCW-5, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1964. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Mid Atlantic Air Museum, a corporation in Reading, Pennsylvania. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 29, 1987 and expires on October 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for market survey, dated July 6, 1970.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Custer Channel Wing
- Model
- CCW-5
- Serial number
- 1
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engineFAA type of aircraft code 5 (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, 2 motors · Cont Motor I0-470 SERIES · 260 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1964
- Cruising speed
- 60 mph
- Transponder code
- A78B96 (octal 51705626)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- July 29, 1987
- Expires
- October 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 24, 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 · Market surveyFAA certificate purpose code 6 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · July 6, 1970
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00593901
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Mid Atlantic Air Museum
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 11 Museum Dr
Reading, PA 19605
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N5855V links to the rest of the register
- Custer Channel Wing 1 aircraft on the register
- Continental IO-470 series 4,724 aircraft with this engine series · 260 hp
- Mid Atlantic Air Museum 74 aircraft in the fleet
- Reading, PA 142 aircraft registered in this town
- Reading Rgnl/Carl A Spaatz Field · RDG
- Pennsylvania 6,194 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Continental IO-470 series 28 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Continental IO-470 series 114 reports since 1995
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Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N5855V, 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 Mid Atlantic Air Museum, a corporation, certificate issued July 29, 1987, expires October 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated July 6, 1970, 6 years after the 1964 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 1 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N5855V 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 N5855V. 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 November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 10, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data