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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 10, 2026Stinson VULTEE V-77
N73589 is a Stinson VULTEE V-77, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 3 seats. It is registered to an individual in Gatesville, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 25, 2025 and expires on September 30, 2032. 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
- Stinson
- Model
- VULTEE V-77 · all VULTEE V-77s and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube and fabricThe fuselage is a welded steel-tube frame covered in fabric, with metal or wooden wing spars under fabric-covered wings; the fabric is replaced every few decades. The Reliant built for the war: steel-tube fuselage under fabric. This is how the Stinson VULTEE V-77 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
- 77-340
- 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
- 116 mph
- Transponder code
- A9E130 (octal 52360460)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- September 25, 2025
- Expires
- September 30, 2032
- Last FAA action
- September 25, 2025
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00302017
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Butler Kendall
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 227 Jack Butler Rd
Gatesville, TX 76528-3301
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 N73589 links to the rest of the register
- Stinson VULTEE V-77 85 registered
- Stinson 1,728 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube and fabric · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Gatesville, TX 39 aircraft registered in this town
- Gatesville Municipal · GOP
- Texas 29,976 aircraft registered
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The public federal record on N73589, 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 Butler Kendall, an individual, certificate issued September 25, 2025, expires September 30, 2032. 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 77-340 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N73589 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]
1 NTSB record under N73589: Accident on July 4, 1993 at St. Charles, MO: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Stinson V77 · operated under 091
THE PILOT'S FAILURE TO MAINTAIN DIRECTIONAL CONTROL OF THE AIRCRAFT. A FACTOR IN THE ACCIDENT WAS THE WIND GUSTS PRESENT AT THE TIME OF THE ACCIDENT.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 10, 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 10, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data