Classic Fighter Industries Inc ME 262 REPRODUCTION
N262AZ is a Classic Fighter Industries Inc ME 262 REPRODUCTION, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbojet engines, built in 2002. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Collings Foundation, a corporation in Stow, Massachusetts. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 18, 2008 and expires on October 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated April 15, 2010. 1 document is on file: loan or lien (security agreement).
Aircraft
- Maker
- Classic Fighter Industries Inc
- Model
- ME 262 REPRODUCTION
- Serial number
- 501241
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turbojet, 2 motors · Ge CJ-610-8A · 2,950 lb thrust
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2002
- Transponder code
- A28683 (octal 50503203)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 18, 2008
- Expires
- October 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 24, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Exhibition · April 15, 2010
- FAA region
- New England
- FAA record id
- 00673553
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Collings Foundation
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 248
Stow, MA 01775-0248
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 1
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The public federal record on N262AZ, 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 Collings Foundation, a corporation, certificate issued July 18, 2008, expires October 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 15, 2010, 8 years after the 2002 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 501241 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N262AZ according to the deregistered file. [2]
1 loan or lien document received by the registry recently (September 9, 2026). The full title and lien picture is in the FAA aircraft records file. [3]
1 NTSB record under N262AZ: Accident on January 17, 2003 at Everett, WA: 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: Classic Fighter Industries ME-262 Reproduction · operated under 091
Failure of the left main gear hydraulic actuator locking slide during landing. Factors include an embankment adjacent to the landing runway.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for SEA03LA027 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
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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