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.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Curtiss Wright
- Model
- P-40B · all P-40Bs and related versions
- Serial number
- 16073
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Allison V1710 SER · 1500 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1941
- Transponder code
- A2DD0F (octal 50556417)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 12, 2019
- Expires
- December 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Exhibition · September 17, 2014
- FAA region
- New England
- FAA record id
- 01000995
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Collings Foundation INC DBA
- Type
- Corporation
- 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.
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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.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
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.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA15LA039 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