Curtiss JN4D
N3712 is a Curtiss JN4D, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1918. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Wartime History Museum INC, a corporation in Tacoma, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 3, 2023 and expires on March 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for racing; exhibition, dated May 13, 1953.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Curtiss
- Model
- JN4D · all JN4Ds and related versions
- Serial number
- 3712
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1918
- Cruising speed
- 67 mph
- Transponder code
- A43A20 (octal 51035040)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 3, 2023
- Expires
- March 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- March 25, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Racing; Exhibition · May 13, 1953
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00503453
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Wartime History Museum INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 2602 S 38Th St Ste A #42
Tacoma, WA 98409
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.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N3712, 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 Wartime History Museum INC, a corporation, certificate issued March 3, 2023, expires March 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 13, 1953, 35 years after the 1918 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 3712 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N3712 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Bensen B-8M (serial Y1, cancelled June 9, 1975). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N3712: Accident on August 5, 1987 at Riverside, CA: minor 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 JN-4 · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX87DUG06 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
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