North American F-51D
N251CS is a North American F-51D, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Southern Heritage Air LLC, an LLC in Helena, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 11, 2010 and expires on May 31, 2029. It holds a limited airworthiness certificate, dated February 3, 1958.
Aircraft
- Maker
- North American
- Model
- F-51D · all F-51Ds and related versions
- Serial number
- 44-74977N
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Pkrd-Roll V1650 SERIES · 1490 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 277 mph
- Transponder code
- A25B78 (octal 50455570)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 11, 2010
- Expires
- May 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 4, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Limited · February 3, 1958
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00433165
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Southern Heritage Air LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 1500 Virginia Dale St
Helena, MT 59601-5820
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 N251CS, 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 Southern Heritage Air LLC, an LLC, certificate issued January 11, 2010, expires May 31, 2029. 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 44-74977N for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N251CS 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 N251CS: Accident on May 12, 2026 at Mound, LA: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal). 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 F-51D · operated under 091
On May 12, 2026, at 1519 central daylight time, a North American F-51D airplane, N251CS, was destroyed when it was involved in an accident at the Vicksburg Tallulah Regional Airport (TVR), Mound, Louisiana. The pilot was fatally injured. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 personal flight. According to witnesses, the pilot was practicing an aerobatic routine. At the conclusion of the planned maneuvers, the pilot performed an additional maneuver and the airplane impacted terrain. Witnesses reported that the engine sounded normal before they heard the soun…
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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 September 30, 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