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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 29, 2026Curtiss Wright TRAVEL AIR 6-B
N9038 is a Curtiss Wright TRAVEL AIR 6-B, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1928. It has 6 seats. It is registered to an individual in Kalispell, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 30, 1992 and expires on October 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated May 11, 1956.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Curtiss Wright
- Model
- TRAVEL AIR 6-B
- Serial number
- 839
- 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&F-2&3 · 475 hp
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- 1928
- Cruising speed
- 213 mph
- Transponder code
- AC7DC1 (octal 53076701)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- November 30, 1992
- Expires
- October 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 16, 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 · May 11, 1956
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00261321
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Galpin Henry M
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 1885 Stillwater Rd
Kalispell, MT 59901
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N9038 links to the rest of the register
- Curtiss Wright 229 aircraft on the register
- Wright 975E&F-2&3 39 aircraft with this engine series · 475 hp
- Kalispell, MT 1,283 aircraft registered in this town
- Glacier Park International · GPI
- Kalispell City Airport · S27
- Montana 6,045 aircraft registered
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The public federal record on N9038, 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 Galpin Henry M, an individual, certificate issued November 30, 1992, expires October 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 11, 1956, 28 years after the 1928 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 839 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N9038 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 N9038. 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 29, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 29, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 29, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 29, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data