Travel 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.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Travel Air
- Model
- E-4000 · all E-4000s and related versions
- Serial number
- 849
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 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 registration
- Certificate issued
- July 30, 2007
- Expires
- November 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- April 1, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · July 11, 1972
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00470577
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Socal Travel Air LLC
- Type
- LLC
- 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.
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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]
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: Curtiss-Wright E-4000 · operated under 091
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- 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
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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