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N271

Polson Thor POLSON SPECIAL

N271 is a Polson Thor POLSON SPECIAL, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1917. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Wayne, Pennsylvania. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 7, 2009 and expires on May 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated November 13, 2007.

Aircraft

Maker
Polson Thor
Model
POLSON SPECIAL
Serial number
102
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Curtiss OX-5 · 90 hp
Seats
1
Year built
1917
Transponder code
A2AA32 (octal 50525062)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
January 7, 2009
Expires
May 31, 2029
Last FAA action
August 4, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Exhibition · November 13, 2007
FAA region
Eastern
FAA record id
00202639

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Jenkins George Merrit
Type
Individual
Address
131 Iron Works Way
Wayne, PA 19087-4200

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.

Earlier use of this number 2

1978-01-09Beech 65-B80 · exported to Fiji · Valid registration
1947-06-30North American SNJ-4 · Valid registration

Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, September 25, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data