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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 30, 2026Travel Air E-4000
N9048 is a Travel Air E-4000, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1928. It has 3 seats. It is registered to Socal Travel Air LLC, an LLC in Newport Beach, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 30, 2007 and expires on November 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated July 11, 1972.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Travel Air
- Model
- E-4000 · all E-4000s and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube, wood and fabricA welded steel-tube fuselage and wooden wings, all covered in fabric: the construction of the 1930s and 1940s, which makes wood rot and fabric age the inspection items. A biplane of the 1920s and 1930s: steel-tube fuselage, wooden wings, fabric covering. This is how the Travel Air E-4000 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 849
- 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 · Cont Motor R670-SERIES · 225 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1928
- Cruising speed
- 79 mph
- Transponder code
- AC8178 (octal 53100570)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- July 30, 2007
- Expires
- November 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- April 1, 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 · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · July 11, 1972
- FAA region
- Western-PacificFAA region code 4 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00470577
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Socal Travel Air LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 220 Newport Center Dr # 449
Newport Beach, CA 92660-7506
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N9048 links to the rest of the register
- Travel Air E-4000 11 registered
- Travel Air 87 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube, wood and fabric · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Continental R670-series 170 aircraft with this engine series · 225 hp
- Socal Travel Air LLC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Newport Beach, CA 133 aircraft registered in this town
- California 27,686 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Continental R670-series 1 airworthiness directives
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The public federal record on N9048, 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 Socal Travel Air LLC, an LLC, certificate issued July 30, 2007, expires November 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated July 11, 1972, 44 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 849 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N9048 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 N9048: Accident on February 17, 1991 at Watsonville, CA: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Curtiss-Wright E-4000 · operated under 091
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Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 30, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 30, 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 30, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data