Lockheed P-38L-5
N2897S is a Lockheed P-38L-5, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Worlds Greatest Aircraft Collection INC, a corporation in Polk City, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 3, 1982 and expires on March 31, 2030. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for aerial surveying, dated July 3, 1956.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Lockheed
- Model
- P-38L-5 · all P-38L-5s and related versions
- Serial number
- 44-26761
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 288 mph
- Transponder code
- A2F2C8 (octal 50571310)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 3, 1982
- Expires
- March 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 13, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Aerial surveying · July 3, 1956
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00140623
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Worlds Greatest Aircraft Collection INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 1400 Broadway Blvd SE
Polk City, FL 33868-9109
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N2897S, 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 Worlds Greatest Aircraft Collection INC, a corporation, certificate issued March 3, 1982, expires March 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Restricted certificate for aerial surveying; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 44-26761 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N2897S 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N2897S. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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
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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data