Howard Aircraft DGA-15P
N63597 is a Howard Aircraft DGA-15P, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1944. It has 5 seats. It is registered to an individual in Germantown, Tennessee. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 25, 2017 and expires on July 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated September 19, 1955.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Howard Aircraft
- Model
- DGA-15P · all DGA-15Ps and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube, wood and fabricA welded steel-tube fuselage and wooden wings, all covered in fabric: the construction of the 1930s and 1940s, which makes wood rot and fabric age the inspection items. A steel-tube fuselage and wooden wings under fabric. This is how the Howard Aircraft DGA-15 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 1830
- 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 · P & W R-985-AN-6 · 400 hp
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- 1944
- Cruising speed
- 150 mph
- Transponder code
- A85402 (octal 52052002)
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 25, 2017
- Expires
- July 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 4, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · September 19, 1955
- FAA region
- CentralFAA region code 3 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00674162
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Spence Ron J
- 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
- 8475 Drury Ln
Germantown, TN 38139-6320
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 1
Connections how N63597 links to the rest of the register
- Howard Aircraft DGA-15 97 registered
- Howard Aircraft 109 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube, wood and fabric · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Pratt & Whitney R-985-AN-6 2 aircraft with this engine series · 400 hp
- Germantown, TN 79 aircraft registered in this town
- Tennessee 6,524 aircraft registered
- Failure reports filed on the Howard Aircraft DGA-15 3 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Howard Aircraft DGA-15 80 supplemental type certificates
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The public federal record on N63597, 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 Spence Ron J, an individual, certificate issued July 25, 2017, expires July 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated September 19, 1955, 11 years after the 1944 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 1830 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N63597 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 172P (serial 17275453, cancelled September 19, 1996). 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]
2 NTSB records under N63597: Accident on October 14, 2022 at Lawrenceburg, TN: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on May 31, 1987 at Lake Wales, FL: minor 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.
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NTSB records 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Howard Aircraft DGA-15P · operated under 091
The pilot’s failure to maintain directional control during landing in gusting wind conditions.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 172P · operated under 091
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 29, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 29, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 29, 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 29, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data