Engineering & Research ERCOUPE 415-C
N87405 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 Towner, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 28, 2018 and expires on February 29, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated May 23, 2003.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Engineering & Research
- Model
- ERCOUPE 415-C · all ERCOUPE 415-Cs and related versions
- Serial number
- 578
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor 0-200 SERIES · 100 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1946
- Cruising speed
- 90 mph
- Transponder code
- AC07A8 (octal 53003650)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 28, 2018
- Expires
- February 29, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 21, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · May 23, 2003
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00012201
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Specht Leo M
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1034 S County Rd 78
Towner, CO 81071
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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 N87405, 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 Specht Leo M, an individual, certificate issued February 28, 2018, expires February 29, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 23, 2003, 57 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 578 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N87405 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 N87405: Accident on January 13, 2016 at Chappell, NE: 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: Engineering & Research ERCOUPE 415 · operated under 091
The pilot's inability to correct for a crosswind during the takeoff roll due to the interlinked flight control design, which resulted in a runway excursion, and a collision with terrain.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for GAA16CA105 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