Curtiss Wright C-46A
N74173 is a Curtiss Wright C-46A, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1959. It has 65 seats. It is registered to an individual in Baldwin Park, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 17, 2018 and expires on December 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for transport, dated July 30, 1964.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Curtiss Wright
- Model
- C-46A · all C-46As and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Curtiss Wright C-46 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
- 289
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engineFAA type of aircraft code 5 (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, 2 motors · P & W R-2800 SERIES · 2000 hp
- Seats
- 65
- Year built
- 1959
- Cruising speed
- 180 mph
- Transponder code
- A9F9AA (octal 52374652)
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 17, 2018
- 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 · TransportFAA certificate purpose code T (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · July 30, 1964
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00372447
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Nichols Charles F Trustee
- 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
- 13470 Dalewood St
Baldwin Park, CA 91706-5834
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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 N74173 links to the rest of the register
- Curtiss Wright C-46 8 registered
- Curtiss Wright 229 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Pratt & Whitney R-2800 series 173 aircraft with this engine series · 2000 hp
- Baldwin Park, CA 94 aircraft registered in this town
- California 27,610 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Curtiss Wright C-46 40 airworthiness directives
- Approved modifications for the Curtiss Wright C-46 30 supplemental type certificates
- Failure reports on the Pratt & Whitney R-2800 series 446 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N74173, 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 Nichols Charles F Trustee, an individual, certificate issued December 17, 2018, expires December 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated July 30, 1964, 5 years after the 1959 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 289 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N74173 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Curtiss Wright C-46F (serial 22487, cancelled November 28, 1975). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N74173. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data