North American/Aero Classics P-51D
N38227 is a North American/Aero Classics P-51D, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1944. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Indianapolis, Indiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 18, 2023 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds a limited airworthiness certificate, dated November 15, 1973.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- North American/Aero Classics
- Model
- P-51D · all P-51Ds 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 North American/Aero Classics P-51 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
- 44-77902
- 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 · Pkrd-Roll V1650 SERIES · 1490 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1944
- Cruising speed
- 277 mph
- Transponder code
- A46576 (octal 51062566)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- April 18, 2023
- Expires
- April 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- April 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- LimitedFAA airworthiness class code 2 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · November 15, 1973
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00060294
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Macallister Chris
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 6300 Southeastern Ave
Indianapolis, IN 46203-5828
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Connections how N38227 links to the rest of the register
- North American/Aero Classics P-51 70 registered
- North American/Aero Classics 70 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Packard (Rolls-Royce Merlin) V1650 series 87 aircraft with this engine series · 1490 hp
- Indianapolis, IN 453 aircraft registered in this town
- Indianapolis International · IND
- Eagle Creek Airpark · EYE
- Hendricks County-Gordon Graham Field · 2R2
- Indianapolis Executive · TYQ
- 5 more landing places in town
- Indiana 5,698 aircraft registered
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The public federal record on N38227, 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 Macallister Chris, an individual, certificate issued April 18, 2023, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated November 15, 1973, 29 years after the 1944 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 44-77902 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N38227 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper J3L-65 (serial 6879, cancelled September 21, 1948). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N38227. 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 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data