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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 27, 2026Consolidated Vultee BT-13A
N11FW is a Consolidated Vultee BT-13A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1942. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Kingsford, Michigan. The FAA lists the registration as "registration pending". It holds a standard airworthiness certificate.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Consolidated Vultee
- Model
- BT-13A · all BT-13As 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 Consolidated Vultee BT-13 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
- 5274
- 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 · P&W R-985 SERIES · 450 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1942
- Cruising speed
- 108 mph
- Transponder code
- A02A6C (octal 50025154)
Registration
- Status
- Registration pendingFAA registration status code R (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- —
- Expires
- —
- Last FAA action
- July 4, 2026
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00930990
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Registration Pending
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- PO Box 2121
Kingsford, MI 49802-2121
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.
Connections how N11FW links to the rest of the register
- Consolidated Vultee BT-13 74 registered
- Consolidated Vultee 115 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Pratt & Whitney R-985 series 1,593 aircraft with this engine series · 450 hp
- Kingsford, MI 18 aircraft registered in this town
- Michigan 7,225 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Consolidated Vultee BT-13 5 airworthiness directives
- Approved modifications for the Consolidated Vultee BT-13 4 supplemental type certificates
- Failure reports on the Pratt & Whitney R-985 series 80 reports since 1995
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N11FW.json.
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The public federal record on N11FW, 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.
Registration status is "Registration pending". An aircraft cannot be operated on an invalid or expired registration; resolve this with the FAA before any transaction. [1]
Standard certificate; the FAA file gives no certificate date. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 5274 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N11FW 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N11FW. 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 October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 27, 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 27, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data