Howard Aircraft DGA-15P
N95462 is a Howard Aircraft DGA-15P, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 5 seats. It is registered to Sterlilng Foundation, a corporation in Valparaiso, Indiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 23, 2026 and expires on July 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Howard Aircraft
- Model
- DGA-15P · all DGA-15Ps 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 steel-tube fuselage and wooden wings under fabric. This is how the Howard Aircraft DGA-15 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
- 771
- 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 · P&W R-985 SERIES · 450 hp
- Seats
- 5
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 150 mph
- Transponder code
- AD46C8 (octal 53243310)
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 23, 2026
- Expires
- July 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- July 23, 2026
- 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
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00924520
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sterlilng Foundation
- 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
- 661 Covered Wagon Trl
Valparaiso, IN 46383-9771
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 N95462 links to the rest of the register
- Howard Aircraft DGA-15 97 registered
- Howard Aircraft 109 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
- Pratt & Whitney R-985 series 1,593 aircraft with this engine series · 450 hp
- Sterlilng Foundation 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Valparaiso, IN 151 aircraft registered in this town
- Porter County Regional · VPZ
- Indiana 5,700 aircraft registered
- Failure reports filed on the Howard Aircraft DGA-15 3 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Howard Aircraft DGA-15 80 supplemental type certificates
- Failure reports on the Pratt & Whitney R-985 series 80 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N95462, 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 Sterlilng Foundation, a corporation, certificate issued July 23, 2026, expires July 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 771 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N95462 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 N95462: Accident on April 28, 2006 at Merritt Island, FL: 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: Howard Aircraft Corp. DGA-15P · operated under 091
The failure of the pilot to comply with the before landing checklist for his failure to lock the tailwheel.
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