Curtiss Wright TRAVEL AIR 6-B
N8878 is a Curtiss Wright TRAVEL AIR 6-B, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1931. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Delta Air Lines INC, a corporation in Atlanta, Georgia. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 10, 1985 and expires on August 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated June 21, 1956.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Curtiss Wright
- Model
- TRAVEL AIR 6-B
- Serial number
- 6B-2040
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Wright 975E-1 · 365 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1931
- Cruising speed
- 213 mph
- Transponder code
- AC3B46 (octal 53035506)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- October 10, 1985
- Expires
- August 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 3, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · June 21, 1956
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00442784
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Delta Air Lines INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 1775 M H Jackson Service Rd
Dept 595 Aircraft Registrations
Atlanta, GA 30354-3743
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
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The public federal record on N8878, 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 Delta Air Lines INC, a corporation, certificate issued October 10, 1985, expires August 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 21, 1956, 25 years after the 1931 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 6B-2040 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N8878 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Travel Air S-6000-B (serial 988, cancelled March 24, 1948). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N8878. 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