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N8179

Curtiss Wright TRAVEL AIR 4000

N8179 is a Curtiss Wright TRAVEL AIR 4000, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1929. It has 3 seats. It is registered to Pacific Southwest Industries INC, a corporation in Santa Ynez, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 3, 2004 and expires on April 30, 2027. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.

Aircraft

Maker
Curtiss Wright
Model
TRAVEL AIR 4000
Serial number
972
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Wright WWJ SERIES · 220 hp
Seats
3
Year built
1929
Cruising speed
79 mph
Transponder code
AB26F0 (octal 52623360)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
May 3, 2004
Expires
April 30, 2027
Last FAA action
January 22, 2023
Airworthiness
None on file
FAA region
Western-Pacific
FAA record id
00315298

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Pacific Southwest Industries INC
Type
Corporation
Address
900 Airport Rd Hngr C-11
Santa Ynez, CA 93460-9481

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.

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