{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"1993-06-16","airworthiness_ops":"Exhibition","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"2002-06-07","city":"WILMINGTON","country_code":"US","county_code":"003","cruise_speed_mph":null,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"67042","engine_horsepower":2900,"engine_maker":"WRIGHT","engine_model":"R3350-32WA","engine_thrust_lb":0,"expiration_date":"2027-08-31","fractional_owner":0,"is_company":0,"is_electric":0,"is_unmanned_cert":0,"kind":"piston-singles","kit_mfr":"","kit_model":"","last_action_date":"2025-11-05","maker":"Douglas","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"DOUGLAS","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"3026016","mode_s_code":"53135434","mode_s_hex":"ACBB1C","model":"AD4-DW","n_number":"N91945","name":"MARINE AVIATION MUSEUM INC","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"TITUSVILLE","damage":"SUBS","date":"1992-04-04","highest_injury":"FATL","ntsb_no":"MIA92LA103","probable_cause":"THE PILOT IN COMMANDS APPROACH AT HIGHER THAN NORMAL AIRSPEED AND HIS LANDING THE AIRCRAFT AT HIGHER THAN NORMAL AIRSPEED AT A POINT ONE HALF TO THREE QUARTERS DOWN THE RUNWAY RESULTING IN THE AIRCRAFT OVERRUNNING THE RUNWAY AND NOSING OVER.","registration":"N91945","state":"FL","summary":"Accident on April 4, 1992 at Titusville, FL: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal).","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"SHARPE RICHARD E JR","plain_english":"N91945 is a Douglas AD4-DW, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1952. It has 2 seats. It is registered to co-owned owners in Wilmington, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 7, 2002 and expires on August 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated June 16, 1993.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to Marine Aviation Museum INC, a co-owned, certificate issued June 7, 2002, expires August 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded.","item":"Registration and identity","source":1,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 16, 1993, 41 years after the 1952 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 126882-SF85 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"N91945 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Cessna 182M (serial 18259965, cancelled June 26, 1970); Piper J3C-65 (serial 16365, cancelled February 24, 1956). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number.","item":"Tail number reuse","source":2,"status":"ATTENTION"},{"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 N91945: Accident on April 4, 1992 at Titusville, FL: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal). 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":"Eastern","region_code":"1","registrant_type":"Co-owned","registrant_type_code":"4","seats":2,"serial_number":"126882-SF85","source":"FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database","state":"DE","status":"Valid registration","status_code":"V","status_short":"Valid","street":"5305 LIMESTONE RD STE 200","street2":"","type_aircraft":"Fixed-wing, single engine","type_aircraft_code":"4","type_engine":"Piston (reciprocating)","type_engine_code":"1","unique_id":"00160871","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N91945","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1952,"zip":"198081247"}