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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 3, 2026Chance 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.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Chance Vought
- Model
- F4U-5 · all F4U-5s and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Chance Vought F4 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 122179
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · P & W R-2800 SERIES · 2000 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1948
- Transponder code
- A13BF3 (octal 50235763)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- December 1, 2008
- Expires
- January 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · ExhibitionFAA certificate purpose code 3 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · April 28, 1988
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00730515
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Fighters & Legends LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 442 Airport Rd
Greenwood, MS 38930-7704
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N179PT links to the rest of the register
- Chance Vought F4 19 registered
- Chance Vought 21 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Pratt & Whitney R-2800 series 173 aircraft with this engine series · 2000 hp
- Fighters & Legends LLC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Greenwood, MS 81 aircraft registered in this town
- Greenwood-Leflore Airport · GWO
- Mississippi 2,601 aircraft registered
- Failure reports on the Pratt & Whitney R-2800 series 446 reports since 1995
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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]
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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.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
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.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 3, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data