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.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Arrow Aircraft & Motors
- Model
- ARROW SPORT · all ARROW SPORTs and related versions
- Serial number
- 412
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Kinner K5 SERIES · 100 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1929
- Cruising speed
- 75 mph
- Transponder code
- ABB32C (octal 52731454)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 5, 2024
- Expires
- March 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- March 5, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · June 27, 1974
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00122751
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Western Antique Aeroplane & Automobile Museum
- Type
- Corporation
- 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.
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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]
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: Arrow Aircraft Co. ARROW SPORT · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for MKC83LA197 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data