North American T-6G
N16JV is a North American T-6G, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1949. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Greatest Generation Naval Museum, a corporation in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 11, 2013 and expires on January 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated January 10, 1961.
Aircraft
- Maker
- North American
- Model
- T-6G · all T-6Gs and related versions
- Serial number
- 49-3155
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · P&W R1340 SERIES · 600 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1949
- Cruising speed
- 141 mph
- Transponder code
- A0F031 (octal 50170061)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 11, 2013
- Expires
- January 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · January 10, 1961
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00590191
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Greatest Generation Naval Museum
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 755 Aviation Way
Colorado Springs, CO 80916-2740
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 · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N16JV, 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 Greatest Generation Naval Museum, a corporation, certificate issued January 11, 2013, expires January 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated January 10, 1961, 12 years after the 1949 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 49-3155 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N16JV was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Aviat Aircraft Inc S-2C (serial 6021, cancelled April 6, 2000). 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]
1 NTSB record under N16JV: Accident on June 9, 2023 at Colorado Springs, CO: no 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 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: North American T-6G · operated under 091
The pilot’s failure to maintain directional control during landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN23LA235 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