Travel Air 16-E
N71068 is a Travel Air 16-E, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1936. It has 3 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Ellsinore, Missouri. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 27, 2012 and expires on December 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated April 25, 1991.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Travel Air
- Model
- 16-E · all 16-Es and related versions
- Serial number
- 3548
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Wright 540 · 175 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1936
- Cruising speed
- 98 mph
- Transponder code
- A97F58 (octal 52277530)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 27, 2012
- Expires
- December 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- July 1, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · April 25, 1991
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00263918
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Cournoyer John J
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- RR 1 Box 251
Ellsinore, MO 63937-9726 - Co-owners
- Stix Albert
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.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N71068, 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 Cournoyer John J, a co-owned, certificate issued December 27, 2012, expires December 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 25, 1991, 55 years after the 1936 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 3548 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N71068 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna TU206F (serial U20602119, cancelled date not given). 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 N71068: Accident on April 4, 1987 at Reno, NV: minor 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: Cessna TU206-F · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for SEA87LA073 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