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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.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- North American
- Model
- F-51D · all F-51Ds 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 North American F-51 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
- 44-74977N
- 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 · Pkrd-Roll V1650 SERIES · 1490 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 277 mph
- Transponder code
- A25B78 (octal 50455570)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- January 11, 2010
- Expires
- May 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 4, 2023
- Airworthiness
- LimitedFAA airworthiness class code 2 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · February 3, 1958
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00433165
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Southern Heritage Air 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
- 1500 Virginia Dale St
Helena, MT 59601-5820
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N251CS links to the rest of the register
- North American F-51 54 registered
- North American 1,297 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Packard (Rolls-Royce Merlin) V1650 series 87 aircraft with this engine series · 1490 hp
- Southern Heritage Air LLC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Helena, MT 536 aircraft registered in this town
- Helena Regional · HLN
- Montana 6,045 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N251CS.json.
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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]
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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 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 27, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data