North American SNJ-5
N3246G is a North American SNJ-5, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1959. It has 2 seats. It is registered to American Airpower Heritage Flying Museum INC, a corporation in Dallas, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 6, 1991 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds a multiple airworthiness certificate for standard; restricted; aerial advertising, dated April 26, 1962.
Aircraft
- Maker
- North American
- Model
- SNJ-5 · all SNJ-5s and related versions
- Serial number
- 90725
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · P&W R1340 SERIES · 600 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1959
- Cruising speed
- 141 mph
- Transponder code
- A3805D (octal 50700135)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- September 6, 1991
- Expires
- April 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 5, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Multiple · Standard; Restricted; Aerial advertising · April 26, 1962
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00311903
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- American Airpower Heritage Flying Museum INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 764769
Dallas, TX 75376-4769
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 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N3246G, 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 American Airpower Heritage Flying Museum INC, a corporation, certificate issued September 6, 1991, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 26, 1962, 3 years after the 1959 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 90725 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N3246G 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 N3246G: Accident on October 23, 2001 at Mesa, AZ: 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: North American SNJ-5 · operated under 091
The pilot's inadequate compensation for an existing crosswind condition, and failure to maintain directional control on the landing rollout.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX02LA014 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