Stearman Aircraft 4E
N785H is a Stearman Aircraft 4E, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1930. It has 3 seats. It is registered to an individual in Huxley, Iowa. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 18, 2025 and expires on February 29, 2032. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control, dated June 12, 1956.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Stearman Aircraft
- Model
- 4E · all 4Es and related versions
- Serial number
- 4022
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · P&W W-S1H&S3H · 600 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1930
- Cruising speed
- 118 mph
- Transponder code
- AAA3C8 (octal 52521710)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 18, 2025
- Expires
- February 29, 2032
- Last FAA action
- February 18, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Agriculture and pest control · June 12, 1956
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00884930
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Aukes Brian E
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 30529 Doe Cir
Huxley, IA 50124-8068
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.
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The public federal record on N785H, 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 Aukes Brian E, an individual, certificate issued February 18, 2025, expires February 29, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 12, 1956, 26 years after the 1930 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 4022 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N785H 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 N785H: Accident on June 18, 2004 at Loganton, PA: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [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.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Stearman 4E · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain aircraft control during the landing roll, which resulted in a nose over. A factor was uneven terrain.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for NYC04CA143 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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