North American SNJ-5
N1047C is a North American SNJ-5, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1960. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Historic Aeroplane Works INC, a corporation in Huntington, Indiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 31, 2007 and expires on July 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated October 14, 1965.
Aircraft
- Maker
- North American
- Model
- SNJ-5 · all SNJ-5s and related versions
- Serial number
- 85063
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · P&W R1340 SERIES · 600 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1960
- Cruising speed
- 141 mph
- Transponder code
- A016E0 (octal 50013340)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 31, 2007
- Expires
- July 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · October 14, 1965
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00470260
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Historic Aeroplane Works INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 1355 Waco Dr
Huntington, IN 46750
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.
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The public federal record on N1047C, read the way a buyer, lender or insurer reads it: FAA registration, prior tail numbers keyed on the serial number, reuse of the tail number, recent registry filings, and the NTSB accident record under this and every earlier registration.
Valid registration to Historic Aeroplane Works INC, a corporation, certificate issued January 31, 2007, expires July 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated October 14, 1965, 5 years after the 1960 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. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 85063 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N1047C according to the deregistered file. [2]
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. [3]
1 NTSB record under N1047C: Accident on September 6, 1997 at Camden, SC: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal). Details below. [4]
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.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: North American T-6-SNJ5 · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to take remedial action after a loss of engine power for undetermined reasons, leading to a spin. Factors were the pilot's use of unapproved medication, and the FAA's inadequate certification and standards for airman.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
This automated check reads the public federal record. Nothing here is a legal opinion, an appraisal or a statement about the aircraft's condition; a CLEAR line is a statement about the searched record, not the aircraft.
Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data