Ercoupe 415-C
N93963 is an Ercoupe 415-C, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1946. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Bug Smashers LLC, an LLC in Winfield, Kansas. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 23, 2017 and expires on August 31, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated February 15, 1956.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Ercoupe
- Model
- 415-C · all 415-Cs and related versions
- Serial number
- 1286
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1946
- Cruising speed
- 90 mph
- Transponder code
- AD0A5E (octal 53205136)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 23, 2017
- Expires
- August 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 10, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · February 15, 1956
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00911575
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bug Smashers LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 1310 Grand St
Winfield, KS 67156-8413
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.
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The public federal record on N93963, 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 Bug Smashers LLC, an LLC, certificate issued August 23, 2017, expires August 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated February 15, 1956, 10 years after the 1946 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 1286 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N93963 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 N93963: Accident on August 2, 2008 at Cedarburg, WI: minor 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: Ercoupe (Eng & Research Corp.) 415-C · operated under 091
The pilot not maintaining altitude/clearance from the tree during takeoff. Contributing to the accident were the windshear and the tree.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI08CA233 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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
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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data