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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 10, 2026Stinson VULTEE V-77
N79496 is a Stinson VULTEE V-77, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1943. It has 3 seats. It is registered to Antique Aero Restorations LLC, an LLC in Wilmington, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 22, 2025 and expires on January 31, 2032. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated September 14, 1959.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Stinson
- Model
- VULTEE V-77 · all VULTEE V-77s and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube and fabricThe fuselage is a welded steel-tube frame covered in fabric, with metal or wooden wing spars under fabric-covered wings; the fabric is replaced every few decades. The Reliant built for the war: steel-tube fuselage under fabric. This is how the Stinson VULTEE V-77 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
- 77-131
- 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 · Lycoming R680E SERIES · 300 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1943
- Cruising speed
- 116 mph
- Transponder code
- AACA93 (octal 52545223)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- January 22, 2025
- Expires
- January 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- June 23, 2025
- 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 · September 14, 1959
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00335180
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Antique Aero Restorations LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 1521 Concord Pike Ste 201
Wilmington, DE 19803-3645
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N79496 links to the rest of the register
- Stinson VULTEE V-77 85 registered
- Stinson 1,728 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube and fabric · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming R680E series 225 aircraft with this engine series · 300 hp
- Antique Aero Restorations LLC 3 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Wilmington, DE 7,373 aircraft registered in this town
- New Castle Airport · ILG
- Delaware 10,962 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming R680E series 5 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming R680E series 1 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N79496, 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 Antique Aero Restorations LLC, an LLC, certificate issued January 22, 2025, expires January 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated September 14, 1959, 16 years after the 1943 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 77-131 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N79496 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 N79496. 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 November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 10, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data