Canadian Car & Foundry HARVARD MK IV
N15797 is a Canadian Car & Foundry HARVARD MK IV, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1945. It has 2 seats. It is registered to American Airpower Heritage Fly Musm, a corporation in Dallas, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 6, 1991 and expires on June 30, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated September 8, 2005.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Canadian Car & Foundry
- Model
- HARVARD MK IV · all HARVARD MK IVs and related versions
- Serial number
- CCF4-199
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · P&W R1340 SERIES · 600 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1945
- Cruising speed
- 240 mph
- Transponder code
- A0E7E3 (octal 50163743)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 6, 1991
- Expires
- June 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 19, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Exhibition · September 8, 2005
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00960940
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- American Airpower Heritage Fly Musm
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 764769
Dallas, TX 75376-4769
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 N15797, 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 American Airpower Heritage Fly Musm, a corporation, certificate issued September 6, 1991, expires June 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated September 8, 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 CCF4-199 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N15797 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]
1 NTSB record under N15797: Accident on June 24, 2005 at Abilene, TX: 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 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Canadian Car & Foundry Mark IV · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain clearance while taxiing. Contributing factors were the pilot's diverted attention and the inaccurate frequency listing for ground control.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DFW05LA175 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
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