Focke Wulf 44J STIEGLITZ
N638 is a Focke Wulf 44J STIEGLITZ, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1938. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Aero Mobil INC, a corporation in Wilmington, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 16, 2012 and expires on May 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated April 28, 1981.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Focke Wulf
- Model
- 44J STIEGLITZ
- Serial number
- 638
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Siemens SH14 · 113 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1938
- Cruising speed
- 129 mph
- Transponder code
- A85B73 (octal 52055563)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 16, 2012
- Expires
- May 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 12, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Exhibition · April 28, 1981
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00172096
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Aero Mobil INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 251 Little Falls Dr
Wilmington, DE 19808-1674
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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 3
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N638, 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 Aero Mobil INC, a corporation, certificate issued May 16, 2012, expires May 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 28, 1981, 43 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]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 638 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N638 was previously assigned to 3 other aircraft: Sikorsky HSS-1 (serial SS581144, cancelled August 10, 1960); Lincoln Aircraft Co STANDARD 5 (serial 103, cancelled May 16, 1938); Lincoln Standard Aircraft Co BIPLANE (serial 47350, cancelled September 8, 1928). 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 N638: Accident on September 14, 1984 at Hollister, CA: no injuries, substantial damage. 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: Focke-Wulf 44J STIEGLITZ · operated under 091
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- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through August 27, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data