Arrow Aircraft & Motors ARROW SPORT
N853H is an Arrow Aircraft & Motors ARROW SPORT, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1929. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Western Antique Aeroplane & Automobile Museum, a corporation in Hood River, Oregon. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 5, 2024 and expires on March 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated June 27, 1974.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Arrow Aircraft & Motors
- Model
- ARROW SPORT · all ARROW SPORTs 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. A biplane of the 1920s and 1930s: steel-tube fuselage, wooden wings, fabric covering. This is how the Arrow Aircraft & Motors ARROW SPORT 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
- 412
- 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 · Kinner K5 SERIES · 100 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1929
- Cruising speed
- 75 mph
- Transponder code
- ABB32C (octal 52731454)
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 5, 2024
- Expires
- March 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- March 5, 2024
- 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 · June 27, 1974
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00122751
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Western Antique Aeroplane & Automobile Museum
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 1600 Air Museum Rd
Hood River, OR 97031-9800
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N853H links to the rest of the register
- Arrow Aircraft & Motors ARROW SPORT 8 registered
- Arrow Aircraft & Motors 9 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
- Kinner K5 series 52 aircraft with this engine series · 100 hp
- Western Antique Aeroplane & Automobile Museum 148 aircraft in the fleet
- Hood River, OR 337 aircraft registered in this town
- Ken Jernstedt Airfield · 4S2
- Oregon 7,020 aircraft registered
- Approved modifications for the Arrow Aircraft & Motors ARROW SPORT 6 supplemental type certificates
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The public federal record on N853H, 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 Western Antique Aeroplane & Automobile Museum, a corporation, certificate issued March 5, 2024, expires March 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 27, 1974, 45 years after the 1929 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 412 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N853H 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 N853H: Accident on August 20, 1983 at Red Oak, IA: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Arrow Aircraft Co. ARROW SPORT · operated under 091
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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