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N8853

Travel Air Mfg Co 2000

Valid Virginia

N8853 is a Travel Air Mfg Co 2000, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1920. It has 3 seats. It is registered to an individual in Falls Church, Virginia. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 10, 2013 and expires on July 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated April 3, 1929.

Aircraft

Maker
Travel Air Mfg Co
Model
2000 · all 2000s and related versions
Serial number
928
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
Seats
3
Year built
1920
Cruising speed
79 mph
Transponder code
AC3329 (octal 53031451)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
July 10, 2013
Expires
July 31, 2029
Last FAA action
August 18, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard · Normal · April 3, 1929
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
00070984

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Rambo Gene
Type
Individual
Address
305 Riley St
Falls Church, VA 22046-3311

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.

Earlier use of this number 2

1982-02-12Bellanca 7ECA · Valid registration
1970-09-18North American F-86H · Valid registration

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N8853, 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 Rambo Gene, an individual, certificate issued July 10, 2013, expires July 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 3, 1929, 9 years after the 1920 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 928 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N8853 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Bellanca 7ECA (serial 930-73, cancelled February 12, 1982); North American F-86H (serial 53-1300, cancelled September 18, 1970). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N8853. 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