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.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Curtiss Wright
- Model
- C-46A · all C-46As and related versions
- Serial number
- 289
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 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 registration
- Certificate issued
- December 17, 2018
- Expires
- December 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- July 1, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Transport · July 30, 1964
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00372447
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Nichols Charles F Trustee
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 13470 Dalewood St
Baldwin Park, CA 91706-5834
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 · 2 to understand · 3 clear
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 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