Curtiss Wright SB2C5
N92879 is a Curtiss Wright SB2C5, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1944. It has 2 seats. It is registered to American Airpower Heritage Fly Museu, a corporation in Dallas, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 10, 1991 and expires on September 30, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated September 12, 1979.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Curtiss Wright
- Model
- SB2C5
- Serial number
- 83589
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Wright R-2600 SER · 1700 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1944
- Cruising speed
- 165 mph
- Transponder code
- ACDF51 (octal 53157521)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 10, 1991
- Expires
- September 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Exhibition · September 12, 1979
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00370601
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- American Airpower Heritage Fly Museu
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 764769
Dallas, TX 75376-4769
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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 N92879, 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 American Airpower Heritage Fly Museu, a corporation, certificate issued September 10, 1991, expires September 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated September 12, 1979, 35 years after the 1944 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 83589 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N92879 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 N92879: Accident on December 8, 2001 at New Orleans, LA: no injuries, minor 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 SB2C-5 · operated under 091
the Helldiver pilot's failure to maintain visual separation with the Cessna while taxiing. Contributing factors were the Cessna pilot's failure to comply with the local controller's instructions to continue taxiing and the failure of the local and ground controllers to monitor the position of the Cessna.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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 September 30, 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