Stinson L-5
N9838F is a Stinson L-5, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Vfr LTD, a corporation in Wilmington, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 6, 2019 and expires on June 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated January 12, 1959.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Stinson
- Model
- L-5 · all L-5s and related versions
- Serial number
- 42-98496
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming GO-435C&D SER · 260 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 105 mph
- Transponder code
- ADB9BF (octal 53334677)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- June 6, 2019
- Expires
- June 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- October 2, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · January 12, 1959
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00892264
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Vfr LTD
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 108 W 13Th St Ste 105
Wilmington, DE 19801-1145
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.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N9838F, 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 Vfr LTD, a corporation, certificate issued June 6, 2019, expires June 30, 2029. 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 42-98496 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N9838F 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 N9838F. 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 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