Stinson L-5
N68591 is a Stinson L-5, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to American Airpower Heritage Flying Mu, a corporation in Dallas, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 6, 1991 and expires on October 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated May 1, 1956.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Stinson
- Model
- L-5 · all L-5s and related versions
- Serial number
- 42-98667
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming 0-435A/0-435C · 190 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- A91977 (octal 52214567)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 6, 1991
- Expires
- October 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 16, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · May 1, 1956
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00850107
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- American Airpower Heritage Flying Mu
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 764769
Dallas, TX 75376-4769
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 N68591, 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 American Airpower Heritage Flying Mu, a corporation, certificate issued September 6, 1991, expires October 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 42-98667 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N68591 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 N68591: Accident on September 29, 1999 at Woodward, OK: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on August 6, 1989 at Minneapolis, MN: 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Stinson L-5 · operated under 091
The in-flight separation of the tip of a wood propeller blade. Contributing factors were the soft terrain and ditch encountered during the precautionary landing.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Stinson L-5 · operated under 091
THE PILOT SELECTED THE WRONG RUNWAY AND FAILED TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL. THE CROSSWIND WAS A CONTRIBUTING FACTOR.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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