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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 28, 2026Travel 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.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Travel Air
- Model
- 16-E · all 16-Es 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 Travel Air 16 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
- 3548
- 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 · Wright 540 · 175 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1936
- Cruising speed
- 98 mph
- Transponder code
- A97F58 (octal 52277530)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- December 27, 2012
- Expires
- December 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- July 1, 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 · April 25, 1991
- FAA region
- CentralFAA region code 3 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00263918
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Cournoyer John J
- Type
- Co-ownedFAA type of owner code 4 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- RR 1 Box 251
Ellsinore, MO 63937-9726 - Co-owners
- Stix Albert
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Connections how N71068 links to the rest of the register
- Travel Air 16 5 registered
- Travel Air 87 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
- Wright 540 20 aircraft with this engine series · 175 hp
- Ellsinore, MO 29 aircraft registered in this town
- Missouri 5,812 aircraft registered
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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
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 28, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 28, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 28, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 28, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data