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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 28, 2026Airnew Inc QUESTAIR VENTURE
N5QE is an Airnew Inc QUESTAIR VENTURE, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Johnson, Kansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 6, 2017 and expires on June 30, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for amateur built, dated February 21, 1991.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Airnew Inc
- Model
- QUESTAIR VENTURE
- Serial number
- 15
- 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 · Cont Motor IO-550 SERIES · 300 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Transponder code
- A636A1 (octal 51433241)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- June 6, 2017
- Expires
- June 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- February 17, 2026
- 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 · Amateur builtFAA certificate purpose code 2 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · February 21, 1991
- FAA region
- CentralFAA region code 3 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00305291
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Troutman Shawn L
- 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
- PO Box 238
Johnson, KS 67855-0238
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Connections how N5QE links to the rest of the register
- Airnew Inc 1 aircraft on the register
- Continental IO-550 series 3,077 aircraft with this engine series · 300 hp
- Johnson, KS 45 aircraft registered in this town
- Kansas 5,734 aircraft registered
- Failure reports on the Continental IO-550 series 239 reports since 1995
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N5QE.json.
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The public federal record on N5QE, 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 Troutman Shawn L, an individual, certificate issued June 6, 2017, expires June 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for amateur built; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 15 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N5QE was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Weber Alan D WEBER VENTURE (serial 54, cancelled January 30, 2007). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N5QE: Accident on September 28, 2006 at El Paso, TX: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal). Details below. [4]
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AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Weber Venture · operated under 091
The aircraft's inadequate landing gear design, which resulted in a loss of directional control and subsequent nose-over. A factor was the owner/builder's failure to incorporate modifications to the landing gear.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 28, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 28, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 28, 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 28, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data