Chance Vought F4U-5
N179PT is a Chance Vought F4U-5, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1948. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Fighters & Legends LLC, an LLC in Greenwood, Mississippi. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 1, 2008 and expires on January 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated April 28, 1988.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Chance Vought
- Model
- F4U-5 · all F4U-5s and related versions
- Serial number
- 122179
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · P & W R-2800 SERIES · 2000 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1948
- Transponder code
- A13BF3 (octal 50235763)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 1, 2008
- Expires
- January 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Exhibition · April 28, 1988
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00730515
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Fighters & Legends LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 442 Airport Rd
Greenwood, MS 38930-7704
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 N179PT, 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 Fighters & Legends LLC, an LLC, certificate issued December 1, 2008, expires January 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 28, 1988, 40 years after the 1948 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 122179 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N179PT 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 N179PT: Accident on July 19, 2016 at East Troy, WI: no injuries, substantial damage. 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: Chance Vought F4U 5 · operated under 091
A failure of the O-ring in the left brake master cylinder for reasons that could not be determined, which resulted in a loss of directional control during landing.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN16LA274 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Chance Vought F4U-5 · operated under 091
The pilot of the other airplane not following the instructions briefed by the formation leader, and the pilot's maneuvering his airplane to avoid the airplane in front of him.
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
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