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A Travel Air 4000, the same model family as N9820
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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 29, 2026
N9820

Travel Air 4000

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesFlorida

N9820 is a Travel Air 4000, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1929. It has 3 seats. It is registered to an individual in Dunedin, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 9, 2017 and expires on June 30, 2027. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated July 12, 2016.

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Aircraft

Maker
Travel Air
Model
4000 · all 4000s and related versions
Built of
steel tube, wood and fabric
A 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 biplane of the 1920s and 1930s: steel-tube fuselage, wooden wings, fabric covering. This is how the Travel Air 4000 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
1019
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 R680-17 · 225 hp
Seats
3
Year built
1929
Cruising speed
79 mph
Transponder code
ADB4EA (octal 53332352)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
June 9, 2017
Expires
June 30, 2027
Last FAA action
January 22, 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 · July 12, 2016
FAA region
SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
00193740

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Oppegard Nicholas D
Type
IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Address
604 Scotland St
Dunedin, FL 34698-7121

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Earlier use of this number 1

1972-10-12Beech B90 · exported to Venezuela · Valid registration

Connections how N9820 links to the rest of the register

Design
Engine
Place
  • Dunedin, FL 33 aircraft registered in this town
  • Florida 21,709 aircraft registered

The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N9820.json.

Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N9820, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Oppegard Nicholas D, an individual, certificate issued June 9, 2017, expires June 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated July 12, 2016, 87 years after the 1929 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]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1019 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N9820 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Beech B90 (serial LJ-370, cancelled October 12, 1972). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N9820. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 29, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 29, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 29, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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 29, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data