North American SNJ-5
N12KY is a North American SNJ-5, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1943. It has 2 seats. It is registered to North American War Bird LLC, an LLC in Wilmington, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 13, 1999 and expires on April 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated November 25, 1964.
Aircraft
- Maker
- North American
- Model
- SNJ-5 · all SNJ-5s and related versions
- Serial number
- 90995
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · P&W R1340 SERIES · 600 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1943
- Cruising speed
- 141 mph
- Transponder code
- A05251 (octal 50051121)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 13, 1999
- Expires
- April 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 28, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · November 25, 1964
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00003721
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- North American War Bird LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 251 Little Falls Dr
Wilmington, DE 19808-1674
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 N12KY, 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 North American War Bird LLC, an LLC, certificate issued January 13, 1999, expires April 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated November 25, 1964, 21 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 90995 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N12KY 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]
2 NTSB records under N12KY: Accident on May 5, 2008 at Wolcott, CO: minor injuries, substantial damage. Accident on March 13, 2007 at Pueblo, CO: no injuries, minor damage. 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: North American SNJ-5 · operated under 091
The failure of the engine driven fuel pump flange due to oil starvation, resulting in the loss of engine power due to fuel starvation. Contributing to the accident was the lack of suitable terrain for a forced landing.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
Aircraft on the NTSB record: North American SNJ-5 · operated under 091
The pilot of the North American SNJ-5 warbird's inadequate visual lookout while taxiing, resulting in an on-ground collision with the stationary Grob motor glider.
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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data