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Ford 4-AT-E
N9642 is a Ford 4-AT-E, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine. It has 14 seats. It is registered to Hov-Aire INC, a corporation in Vicksburg, Michigan. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 16, 2023 and expires on May 31, 2030. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Ford
- Model
- 4-AT-E · all 4-AT-Es and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. The Ford Trimotor: corrugated aluminium. This is how the Ford 4 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
- 4AT58
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engineFAA type of aircraft code 5 (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, 3 motors
- Seats
- 14
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 91 mph
- Transponder code
- AD6DA0 (octal 53266640)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- May 16, 2023
- Expires
- May 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- May 16, 2023
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00974250
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Hov-Aire INC
- 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
- 12207 Sprinkle Rd
Vicksburg, MI 49097-8470
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.
Earlier use of this number 1
Connections how N9642 links to the rest of the register
- Ford 4 6 registered
- Ford 10 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Hov-Aire INC 2 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Vicksburg, MI 22 aircraft registered in this town
- Michigan 7,225 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N9642.json.
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The public federal record on N9642, 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 Hov-Aire INC, a corporation, certificate issued May 16, 2023, expires May 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 4AT58 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N9642 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Ford 4-AT-E (serial 58, cancelled July 30, 1957). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N9642. 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 October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 27, 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 27, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data