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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 2, 2026Curtiss Wright TRAVEL AIR 4000
N6425 is a Curtiss Wright TRAVEL AIR 4000, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 3 seats. It is registered to Cavanaugh Flight Museum, a corporation in Denison, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 23, 2017 and expires on February 28, 2030. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Curtiss Wright
- Model
- TRAVEL AIR 4000 · all TRAVEL AIR 4000s 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 biplane of the 1920s and 1930s: steel-tube fuselage, wooden wings, fabric covering. This is how the Curtiss Wright TRAVEL AIR 4000 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
- 766
- 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
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 79 mph
- Transponder code
- A86FB0 (octal 52067660)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- February 23, 2017
- Expires
- February 28, 2030
- Last FAA action
- March 17, 2026
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00072296
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Cavanaugh Flight 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
- 227 Woodruff Rd Ste 2
Denison, TX 75020-8652
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.
Connections how N6425 links to the rest of the register
- Curtiss Wright TRAVEL AIR 4000 55 registered
- Curtiss Wright 229 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
- Cavanaugh Flight Museum 14 aircraft in the fleet
- Denison, TX 88 aircraft registered in this town
- Texas 29,946 aircraft registered
- Approved modifications for the Curtiss Wright TRAVEL AIR 4000 15 supplemental type certificates
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N6425.json.
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The public federal record on N6425, 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 Cavanaugh Flight Museum, a corporation, certificate issued February 23, 2017, expires February 28, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 766 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N6425 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]
2 NTSB records under N6425: Accident on April 16, 2004 at Port St. Lucie, FL: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on June 14, 2000 at Reno, NV: minor injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Curtiss-Wright Travel Air 4000 · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain directional control during landing, which resulted in an inadvertent swerve, the right main landing gear wheel separating, and the airplane impacting trees and incurring structural damage.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Curtis-Wright TRAVEL AIR 4000 · operated under 091
The pilot's improper bounced landing recovery technique and failure to maintain directional control in a quartering tailwind condition.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data