Grumman F8F-1
N14HP is a Grumman F8F-1, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Texas Bearcats LLC, an LLC in Dover, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 7, 2024 and expires on September 30, 2031. It holds a limited airworthiness certificate, dated September 1, 1981.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Grumman
- Model
- F8F-1 · all F8F-1s and related versions
- Serial number
- 90446
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · P & W R-2800 SERIES · 2000 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 341 mph
- Transponder code
- A0A114 (octal 50120424)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 7, 2024
- Expires
- September 30, 2031
- Last FAA action
- September 7, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Limited · September 1, 1981
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00383450
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Texas Bearcats LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 850 New Burton Rd Ste 201
Dover, DE 19904-5786
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.
Records check free · 1 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N14HP, 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 Texas Bearcats LLC, an LLC, certificate issued September 7, 2024, expires September 30, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Limited certificate; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 90446 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N14HP 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 N14HP: Accident on April 4, 2012 at Breckenridge, TX: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal). Accident on July 29, 1999 at Oshkosh, WI: serious injuries, substantial 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: Grumman F8F-1 · operated under 091
The pilot's loss of airplane control during a low-altitude aerobatic maneuver.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN12LA227 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Grumman F8F-1 · operated under 091
The pilot of the other airplane not following the instructions briefed by the formation leader, and clearance not maintained by the pilot of the other airplane. A factor relating to this accident was the area of restricted visibility in front of the pilot of the other airplane when the airplane sits on its tailwheel.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI99FA266 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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
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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