Grumman F4F-3
N12260 is a Grumman F4F-3, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1943. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Air Legends Foundation, a corporation in San Antonio, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 1, 2023 and expires on December 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated November 4, 2002.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Grumman
- Model
- F4F-3
- Serial number
- 12260
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · P & W R-1830 SERIES · 1350 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1943
- Transponder code
- A05E63 (octal 50057143)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 1, 2023
- Expires
- December 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- December 1, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Exhibition · November 4, 2002
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00373772
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Air Legends Foundation
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 10101 Reunion Pl Ste 1000
San Antonio, TX 78216-4157
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 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N12260, 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 Air Legends Foundation, a corporation, certificate issued December 1, 2023, expires December 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated November 4, 2002, 59 years after the 1943 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 12260 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N12260 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: General Western Aero Corp Ltd P-2-S (serial 104, cancelled June 8, 1948). 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 N12260. 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 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 August 27, 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