{"airworthiness_class":"Standard","airworthiness_date":"1959-04-08","airworthiness_ops":"","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"1991-09-06","city":"DALLAS","country_code":"US","county_code":"113","cruise_speed_mph":105,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"37504","engine_horsepower":160,"engine_maker":"KINNER","engine_model":"R5 SERIES","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2028-09-30","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":1,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2023-06-10","maker":"Ryan Aeronautical","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"RYAN AERONAUTICAL","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"7830502","mode_s_code":"51402631","mode_s_hex":"A60599","model":"ST3KR","n_number":"N48742","name":"AMERICAN AIRPOWER HERITAGE FLYING MUSEUM","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"Camarillo","damage":"SUBS","date":"2001-08-25","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"LAX01LA288","probable_cause":"The improper fabrication/reassembly and inspection of the engine throttle control linkage during aircraft restoration by the operator, and the failure of the operator's inspection personnel to detect the error during subsequent annual inspections.","registration":"N48742","state":"CA","summary":"Accident on August 25, 2001 at Camarillo, CA: no injuries, substantial damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N48742 is a Ryan Aeronautical ST3KR, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1941. 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 September 6, 1991 and expires on September 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated April 8, 1959.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to American Airpower Heritage Flying Museum, a corporation, certificate issued September 6, 1991, expires September 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 8, 1959, 18 years after the 1941 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.","item":"Airworthiness certificate date","source":1,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1298 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N48742 according to the deregistered file.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Recent registry documents","source":3,"status":"NOTE"},{"finding":"1 NTSB record under N48742: Accident on August 25, 2001 at Camarillo, CA: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below.","item":"Accident and incident record","source":4,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"finding":"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.","item":"Title chain, liens and 337 forms","source":null,"status":"PENDING"},{"finding":"AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.","item":"Airworthiness directives and utilization","source":null,"status":"PENDING"}],"records_check_sources":[{"n":1,"name":"FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":2,"name":"FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download)","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":3,"name":"FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks","url":"https://registry.faa.gov/"},{"n":4,"name":"NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL)","url":"https://data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search"}],"region":"Southwestern","region_code":"2","registrant_type":"Corporation","registrant_type_code":"3","seats":2,"serial_number":"1298","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"TX","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"PO BOX 764769","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00530415","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N48742","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1941,"zip":"753764769"}