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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 6, 2026Stinson/Wilbur L-5G
N961JW is a Stinson/Wilbur L-5G, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1986. It has 2 seats. It is registered to American Airpower Heritage Flying Museum, a corporation in Dallas, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 1, 2016 and expires on August 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 5, 1986.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Stinson/Wilbur
- Model
- L-5G
- Serial number
- 44-88001
- 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 · Lycoming 0-435 · 175 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1986
- Transponder code
- AD60BA (octal 53260272)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- August 1, 2016
- Expires
- August 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 25, 2023
- 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 · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · August 5, 1986
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00651877
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- American Airpower Heritage Flying Museum
- 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
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No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N961JW links to the rest of the register
- Stinson/Wilbur 1 aircraft on the register
- Lycoming O-435 88 aircraft with this engine series · 175 hp
- American Airpower Heritage Flying Museum 83 aircraft in the fleet
- Dallas, TX 1,863 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 29,966 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Lycoming O-435 4 airworthiness directives
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N961JW.json.
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The public federal record on N961JW, 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 Flying Museum, a corporation, certificate issued August 1, 2016, expires August 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal, dated August 5, 1986, consistent with the 1986 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 44-88001 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N961JW 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N961JW. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data