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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.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Curtiss Wright
- Model
- TRAVEL AIR 6-B
- Serial number
- 6B-2040
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Wright 975E-1 · 365 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1931
- Cruising speed
- 213 mph
- Transponder code
- AC3B46 (octal 53035506)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- October 10, 1985
- Expires
- August 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 3, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · June 21, 1956
- FAA region
- SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00442784
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Delta Air Lines INC
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- 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
Connections how N8878 links to the rest of the register
- Curtiss Wright 229 aircraft on the register
- Wright 975E-1 6 aircraft with this engine series · 365 hp
- Delta Air Lines INC 1,127 aircraft in the fleet
- Atlanta, GA 1,592 aircraft registered in this town
- Cobb County Intl/Mccollum Field · RYY
- Dekalb-Peachtree Airport · PDK
- Fulton County Exec/Charlie Brown Field · FTY
- Hartsfield/Jackson Atlanta International · ATL
- 5 more landing places in town
- Georgia 8,801 aircraft registered
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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 November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 4, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data