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N74EC

Dehavilland HORNET MOTH DH 87B

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesPennsylvania

N74EC is a Dehavilland HORNET MOTH DH 87B, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1938. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Woodlands Toy Store LP, a partnership in Eighty Four, Pennsylvania. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 29, 2005 and expires on November 30, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated May 8, 2005.

Aircraft

Maker
Dehavilland
Model
HORNET MOTH DH 87B
Serial number
8161
Type
Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). All codes
Power
Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). All codes, 1 motor · Dehav Eng GIPSY MAJOR · 140 hp
Seats
4
Year built
1938
Cruising speed
60 mph
Transponder code
A9F098 (octal 52370230)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). All codes
Certificate issued
March 29, 2005
Expires
November 30, 2029
Last FAA action
September 15, 2023
Airworthiness
ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · ExhibitionFAA certificate purpose code 3 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · May 8, 2005
FAA region
EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00172357

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Woodlands Toy Store LP
Type
PartnershipFAA type of owner code 2 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). All codes
Address
1019 Route 519 Bldg 5
Eighty Four, PA 15330-2813

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.

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N74EC, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Woodlands Toy Store LP, a partnership, certificate issued March 29, 2005, expires November 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 8, 2005, 67 years after the 1938 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]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 8161 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N74EC according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N74EC. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data