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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 6, 2026Grumman TBM-3
N109K is a Grumman TBM-3, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1945. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Mid Atlantic Air Museum, a corporation in Reading, Pennsylvania. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 30, 2004 and expires on April 30, 2029. It holds a limited airworthiness certificate, dated May 16, 2005.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Grumman
- Model
- TBM-3 · all TBM-3s and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Grumman TBM-3 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 53638
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Wright R-2600 SER · 1700 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1945
- Cruising speed
- 266 mph
- Transponder code
- A02704 (octal 50023404)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- January 30, 2004
- Expires
- April 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 28, 2023
- Airworthiness
- LimitedFAA airworthiness class code 2 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · May 16, 2005
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00035769
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Mid Atlantic Air Museum
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 11 Museum Rd
Reading, PA 19605-9407
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Connections how N109K links to the rest of the register
- Grumman TBM-3 40 registered
- Grumman 443 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Wright R-2600 series 52 aircraft with this engine series · 1700 hp
- Mid Atlantic Air Museum 74 aircraft in the fleet
- Reading, PA 142 aircraft registered in this town
- Reading Rgnl/Carl A Spaatz Field · RDG
- Pennsylvania 6,195 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Grumman TBM-3 2 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Grumman TBM-3 9 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Grumman TBM-3 4 supplemental type certificates
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The public federal record on N109K, 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 Mid Atlantic Air Museum, a corporation, certificate issued January 30, 2004, expires April 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 16, 2005, 60 years after the 1945 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 53638 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N109K was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Monocoupe MONOPREP (serial 6071, cancelled October 14, 1932). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N109K. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data