Fleet 1
N638M is a Fleet 1, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1930. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Western North Carolina Air Museum, a corporation in Hendersonville, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 30, 2023 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Fleet
- Model
- 1 · all 1s and related versions
- Serial number
- 213
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Warner SCARAB SERIES · 125 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1930
- Cruising speed
- 169 mph
- Transponder code
- A85C87 (octal 52056207)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 30, 2023
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- February 4, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00173981
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Western North Carolina Air Museum
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 2343
Hendersonville, NC 28793-2343
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.
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The public federal record on N638M, 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 Western North Carolina Air Museum, a corporation, certificate issued January 30, 2023, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate; the FAA file gives no certificate date. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 213 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N638M 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]
1 NTSB record under N638M: Accident on November 19, 1995 at Holly Springs, NC: no 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.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Fleet ONE · operated under 091
a loss of engine power due to a cracked crankshaft. A factor was the rough/uneven terrain encountered during the forced landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ATL96LA013 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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
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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data