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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.
Where is it now Last seen October 17 at 8:15 am.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Curtiss Wright
- Model
- SB2C5
- Serial number
- 83589
- 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 R-2600 SER · 1700 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1944
- Cruising speed
- 165 mph
- Transponder code
- ACDF51 (octal 53157521)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- September 10, 1991
- Expires
- September 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · ExhibitionFAA certificate purpose code 3 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · September 12, 1979
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00370601
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- American Airpower Heritage Fly Museu
- 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
- PO Box 764769
Dallas, TX 75376-4769
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N92879 links to the rest of the register
- Curtiss Wright 229 aircraft on the register
- Wright R-2600 series 52 aircraft with this engine series · 1700 hp
- American Airpower Heritage Fly Museu 20 aircraft in the fleet
- Dallas, TX 1,858 aircraft registered in this town
- Addison Airport · ADS
- Dallas Executive · RBD
- Dallas Love Field · DAL
- Mckinney Ntl Airport · TKI
- 3 more landing places in town
- Texas 29,911 aircraft registered
- Where N92879 is now · Last seen October 17 at 8:15 am.
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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 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data