Grumman TBM-3
N40402 is a Grumman TBM-3, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1945. It has 2 seats. It is registered to American Airpower Heritage Flying Museum, a corporation in Dallas, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 18, 2001 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds a limited airworthiness certificate, dated May 27, 2014.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Grumman
- Model
- TBM-3 · all TBM-3s and related versions
- Serial number
- 91426
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Wright R-2600-20 · 1900 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1945
- Cruising speed
- 266 mph
- Transponder code
- A4BDF0 (octal 51136760)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 18, 2001
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- September 30, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Limited · May 27, 2014
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00723764
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- American Airpower Heritage Flying Museum
- 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.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N40402, 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, a corporation, certificate issued April 18, 2001, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 27, 2014, 69 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 91426 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N40402 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Martin 404 (serial 14102, cancelled May 21, 1976). 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 N40402. 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