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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026Curtiss Wright TRAVEL AIR B-4000
N9872 is a Curtiss Wright TRAVEL AIR B-4000, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1929. It has 3 seats. It is registered to Aerospace Trust Management LLC Trustee, an LLC in Wilmington, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 22, 2023 and expires on May 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated July 1, 1966.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Curtiss Wright
- Model
- TRAVEL AIR B-4000
- Serial number
- 1059
- 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 · Cont Motor W670 SERIES · 250 hp
- Seats
- 3
- Year built
- 1929
- Cruising speed
- 79 mph
- Transponder code
- ADC7C3 (octal 53343703)
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 22, 2023
- Expires
- May 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- May 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 1, 1966
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00103620
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Aerospace Trust Management LLC Trustee
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 1013 Centre Rd
Wilmington, DE 19805-1265
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No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N9872 links to the rest of the register
- Curtiss Wright 229 aircraft on the register
- Continental W670 series 987 aircraft with this engine series · 250 hp
- Aerospace Trust Management LLC Trustee 138 aircraft in the fleet
- Wilmington, DE 7,373 aircraft registered in this town
- New Castle Airport · ILG
- Delaware 10,952 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Continental W670 series 1 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the Continental W670 series 8 reports since 1995
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N9872.json.
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The public federal record on N9872, 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 Aerospace Trust Management LLC Trustee, an LLC, certificate issued May 22, 2023, expires May 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated July 1, 1966, 37 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]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1059 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N9872 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 N9872: Accident on November 14, 2015 at Carlsbad, CA: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Curtiss Wright Travel Air · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain directional control during the landing roll, resulting in a ground-loop, and substantial damage to the right wing and wing strut.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data