{"airworthiness_class":"Experimental","airworthiness_date":"1979-09-12","airworthiness_ops":"Exhibition","category":"conventional","cert_issue_date":"1991-09-10","city":"DALLAS","country_code":"US","county_code":"113","cruise_speed_mph":165,"data_date":"2026-10-02","documents":[],"eng_mfr_mdl":"67050","engine_horsepower":1700,"engine_maker":"WRIGHT","engine_model":"R-2600 SER","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":"Curtiss Wright","maker_country":null,"maker_raw":"CURTISS WRIGHT","maker_segment":null,"mfr_mdl_code":"2624020","mode_s_code":"53157521","mode_s_hex":"ACDF51","model":"SB2C5","n_number":"N92879","name":"AMERICAN AIRPOWER HERITAGE FLY MUSEU","ntsb_checked":true,"ntsb_records":[{"city":"New Orleans","damage":"MINR","date":"2001-12-08","highest_injury":"NONE","ntsb_no":"FTW02LA047","probable_cause":"the Helldiver pilot's failure to maintain visual separation with the Cessna while taxiing.  Contributing factors were the Cessna pilot's failure to comply with the local controller's instructions to continue taxiing and the failure of the local and ground controllers to monitor the position of the Cessna.","registration":"N92879","state":"LA","summary":"Accident on December 8, 2001 at New Orleans, LA: no injuries, minor damage.","type":"ACC"}],"num_engines":1,"other_names":"","plain_english":"N92879 is a Curtiss Wright SB2C5, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1944. It has 2 seats. It is registered to American Airpower Heritage Fly Museu, a corporation in Dallas, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 10, 1991 and expires on September 30, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated September 12, 1979.","records_check":[{"finding":"Valid registration to American Airpower Heritage Fly Museu, a corporation, certificate issued September 10, 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 September 12, 1979, 35 years after the 1944 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 83589 for this model in the deregistered file.","item":"Prior registrations of this airframe","source":2,"status":"CLEAR"},{"finding":"No other airframe has carried N92879 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 N92879: Accident on December 8, 2001 at New Orleans, LA: no injuries, minor 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":"83589","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":"00370601","url":"https://eflight.com/aircraft/N92879","watchlist_group":null,"watchlist_note":null,"weight_class":"","year_mfr":1944,"zip":"753764769"}