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Dehavilland HORNET MOTH DH 87B
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.
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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). 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 · 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). Every aircraft with this code · 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). Every aircraft with this code · 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). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 1019 Route 519 Bldg 5
Eighty Four, PA 15330-2813
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N74EC links to the rest of the register
- Dehavilland 861 aircraft on the register
- de Havilland Engine GIPSY MAJOR 89 aircraft with this engine series · 140 hp
- Woodlands Toy Store LP 2 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Eighty Four, PA 18 aircraft registered in this town
- Bandel Airport · 22D
- Pennsylvania 6,183 aircraft registered
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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.
Valid registration to Woodlands Toy Store LP, a partnership, certificate issued March 29, 2005, expires November 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
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]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 8161 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N74EC 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N74EC. 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 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