Curtiss Wright P-40B
N284CF is a Curtiss Wright P-40B, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1941. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Collings Foundation INC DBA, a corporation in Hudson, Massachusetts. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 12, 2019 and expires on December 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated September 17, 2014.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Curtiss Wright
- Model
- P-40B · all P-40Bs 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 Curtiss Wright P-40 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
- 16073
- 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 · Allison V1710 SER · 1500 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1941
- Transponder code
- A2DD0F (octal 50556417)
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 12, 2019
- Expires
- December 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 22, 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 · September 17, 2014
- FAA region
- New EnglandFAA region code E (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01000995
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Collings Foundation INC DBA
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 568 Main St
Hudson, MA 01749-3027 - Co-owners
- American Heritage Museum
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N284CF links to the rest of the register
- Curtiss Wright P-40 39 registered
- Curtiss Wright 229 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Allison (Rolls-Royce) V1710 series 70 aircraft with this engine series · 1500 hp
- Collings Foundation INC DBA 16 aircraft in the fleet
- Hudson, MA 20 aircraft registered in this town
- Massachusetts 2,648 aircraft registered
- Failure reports on the Allison (Rolls-Royce) V1710 series 5 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N284CF, 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 INC DBA, a corporation, certificate issued December 12, 2019, expires December 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated September 17, 2014, 73 years after the 1941 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 16073 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N284CF 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 N284CF: Accident on October 29, 2014 at New Smyrna Beach, FL: 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.
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Curtiss Wright P 40B · operated under 091
The pilot’s failure to maintain directional control while landing with a crosswind, which resulted in a ground loop and a subsequent runway excursion.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 28, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 28, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 28, 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 28, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data