Travel Air 4000
N8870 is a Travel Air 4000, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1929. It has 3 seats. It is registered to East Hampton Air LLC, an LLC in Wainscott, New York. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 12, 2012 and expires on September 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated October 2, 2019.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Travel Air
- Model
- 4000 · all 4000s and related versions
- Serial number
- 937
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Cont Motor W670 SERIES · 250 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1929
- Cruising speed
- 79 mph
- Transponder code
- AC3A2E (octal 53035056)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 12, 2012
- Expires
- September 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · October 2, 2019
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00211892
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- East Hampton Air LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- PO Box 968
Wainscott, NY 11975-0968
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 N8870, 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 East Hampton Air LLC, an LLC, certificate issued September 12, 2012, expires September 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated October 2, 2019, 90 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 937 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N8870 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 N8870: Accident on June 30, 2018 at Shelter Island, NY: 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: Travel Air 2000 · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain clearance from a tree during taxi.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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 September 30, 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