Curtiss Wright TRAVEL AIR 4000
N8858 is a Curtiss Wright TRAVEL AIR 4000, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 3 seats. It is registered to Air Combat Museum, a corporation in Springfield, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 4, 2026 and expires on July 31, 2033. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Curtiss Wright
- Model
- TRAVEL AIR 4000 · all TRAVEL AIR 4000s and related versions
- Serial number
- 949
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Wright 760A B D E&ET · 250 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 79 mph
- Transponder code
- AC33D8 (octal 53031730)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 4, 2026
- Expires
- July 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- July 4, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Agriculture and pest control
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00341098
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Air Combat Museum
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 6 Fox Mill Ln
Springfield, IL 62712-9511
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.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N8858, 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 Air Combat Museum, a corporation, certificate issued July 4, 2026, expires July 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Restricted certificate for agriculture and pest control; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 949 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N8858 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N8858. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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