Curtiss Wright ROBIN
N8303 is a Curtiss Wright ROBIN, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 3 seats. It is registered to an individual in Hector, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 26, 2026 and expires on August 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated October 6, 1971.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Curtiss Wright
- Model
- ROBIN · all ROBINs and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube, wood and fabricA welded steel-tube fuselage and wooden wings, all covered in fabric: the construction of the 1930s and 1940s, which makes wood rot and fabric age the inspection items. The Robin: steel-tube fuselage, wooden wings, fabric. This is how the Curtiss Wright ROBIN 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
- 178
- 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 0-435A/0-435C · 190 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 79 mph
- Transponder code
- AB5B1B (octal 52655433)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- August 26, 2026
- Expires
- August 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- August 26, 2026
- 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 · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · October 6, 1971
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00943461
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Newberg Edgar T
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- PO Box 476
Hector, MN 55342-0476
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N8303 links to the rest of the register
- Curtiss Wright ROBIN 20 registered
- Curtiss Wright 229 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube, wood and fabric · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Lycoming O-435A/O-435C 135 aircraft with this engine series · 190 hp
- Hector, MN 34 aircraft registered in this town
- Hector Municipal · 1D6
- Minnesota 6,933 aircraft registered
- Approved modifications for the Curtiss Wright ROBIN 1 supplemental type certificates
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming O-435A/O-435C 5 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Lycoming O-435A/O-435C 2 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N8303, 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 Newberg Edgar T, an individual, certificate issued August 26, 2026, expires August 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 178 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N8303 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 N8303. 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 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data