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N850W

Bird CK

Valid New York

N850W is a Bird CK, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1931. It has 3 seats. It is registered to Rhinebeck Aerodrome Museum, a corporation in Rhinebeck, New York. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 12, 1994 and expires on July 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated October 13, 1961.

Aircraft

Maker
Bird
Model
CK · all CKs and related versions
Serial number
4012
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Kinner B5 SERIES · 125 hp
Seats
3
Year built
1931
Cruising speed
84 mph
Transponder code
ABA94C (octal 52724514)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
December 12, 1994
Expires
July 31, 2029
Last FAA action
August 18, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · October 13, 1961
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
00452811

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Rhinebeck Aerodrome Museum
Type
Corporation
Address
PO Box 229
Rhinebeck, NY 12572-0229

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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 N850W, 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 Rhinebeck Aerodrome Museum, a corporation, certificate issued December 12, 1994, expires July 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated October 13, 1961, 30 years after the 1931 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 4012 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N850W 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 N850W. 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 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