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Grumman TBM-3E
N3969A is a Grumman TBM-3E, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1945. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Centerline Holdings INC, a corporation in Camden, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 2, 2024 and expires on May 31, 2031. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated September 3, 2009.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Grumman
- Model
- TBM-3E · all TBM-3Es 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 Grumman TBM-3 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
- 53787
- 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 · Wright R-2600-20 · 1900 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1945
- Cruising speed
- 266 mph
- Transponder code
- A49CA7 (octal 51116247)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- May 2, 2024
- Expires
- May 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- May 2, 2024
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · ExhibitionFAA certificate purpose code 3 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · September 3, 2009
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01015389
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Centerline Holdings INC
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 2140 S Dupont Hwy
Camden, DE 19934-1249
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N3969A links to the rest of the register
- Grumman TBM-3 40 registered
- Grumman 442 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Wright R-2600-20 9 aircraft with this engine series · 1900 hp
- Centerline Holdings INC 11 aircraft in the fleet
- Holds an FAA aircraft dealer certificate · expired
- Camden, DE 160 aircraft registered in this town
- Delaware 10,952 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Grumman TBM-3 2 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Grumman TBM-3 9 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Grumman TBM-3 4 supplemental type certificates
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The public federal record on N3969A, 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 Centerline Holdings INC, a corporation, certificate issued May 2, 2024, expires May 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated September 3, 2009, 64 years after the 1945 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 53787 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N3969A 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 N3969A. 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