Engineering & Research ERCOUPE 415-C
N87226 is an Engineering & Research ERCOUPE 415-C, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1946. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Pittsburg, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 2, 2001 and expires on October 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated May 29, 1956.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Engineering & Research
- Model
- ERCOUPE 415-C · all ERCOUPE 415-Cs and related versions
- Serial number
- 399
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor A&C75 SERIES · 75 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1946
- Cruising speed
- 90 mph
- Transponder code
- AC0081 (octal 53000201)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 2, 2001
- Expires
- October 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 22, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Standard · May 29, 1956
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00782221
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Strong Neil E
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1244 County Road 2730
Pittsburg, TX 75686-5539
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
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 N87226, 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 Strong Neil E, an individual, certificate issued March 2, 2001, expires October 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 29, 1956, 10 years after the 1946 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 399 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N87226 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 N87226: Accident on December 14, 1996 at Amarillo, TX: 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: Ercoupe (Eng & Research Corp.) 415-D · operated under 091
failure of the #1 exhaust valve, which resulted in loss of engine power and a forced landing on rough/uneven terrain. A factor relating to the accident was: the lack of suitable terrain for a forced landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW97LA063 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
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