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Stearman Aircraft 4E
N663K is a Stearman Aircraft 4E, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1930. It has 3 seats. It is registered to Scott William Ben, a partnership in Reno, Nevada. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 29, 2015 and expires on June 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated January 26, 1971.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Stearman Aircraft
- Model
- 4E · all 4Es 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 Stearman Aircraft 4 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
- 4005
- 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 W-SC SERIES · 450 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1930
- Cruising speed
- 118 mph
- Transponder code
- A8C03F (octal 52140077)
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 29, 2015
- Expires
- June 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 19, 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 · January 26, 1971
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00943006
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Scott William Ben
- Type
- PartnershipFAA type of owner code 2 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 1175 Holcomb Ranch Ln
Reno, NV 89511-5440 - Co-owners
- Scott Sandra M
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 N663K links to the rest of the register
- Stearman Aircraft 4 9 registered
- Stearman Aircraft 33 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 W-SC series 1 aircraft with this engine series · 450 hp
- Scott William Ben 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Reno, NV 666 aircraft registered in this town
- Reno/Tahoe International · RNO
- Reno/Stead Airport · RTS
- Spanish Springs Airport · N86
- Nevada 4,589 aircraft registered
- Approved modifications for the Stearman Aircraft 4 1 supplemental type certificates
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The public federal record on N663K, 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 Scott William Ben, a partnership, certificate issued June 29, 2015, expires June 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated January 26, 1971, 41 years after the 1930 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 4005 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N663K 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 N663K: Accident on May 17, 2021 at Porterville, CA: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on March 31, 1990 at Burns, OR: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Stearman Aircraft 4E · operated under 091
The pilot’s loss of directional control while landing, which resulted in a landing gear collapse.
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Aircraft on the NTSB record: Stearman 4E · operated under 091
THE PILOT'S FAILURE TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 4, 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 4, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data