North American T-6D SNJ5
N42897 is a North American T-6D SNJ5, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1944. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Gold Coast Warbird Adventures INC, a corporation in Miami, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 17, 1999 and expires on January 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 25, 2010.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- North American
- Model
- T-6D SNJ5 · all T-6D SNJ5s 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 T-6 Texan 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
- 42-84211
- 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 · P & W R-1340-AN-1 · 550 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1944
- Transponder code
- A51D0A (octal 51216412)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- December 17, 1999
- Expires
- January 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · August 25, 2010
- FAA region
- SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00483882
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Gold Coast Warbird Adventures 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
- 18601 S W 210 St
Miami, FL 33187
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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 N42897 links to the rest of the register
- North American T-6 Texan 109 registered
- North American 1,297 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Pratt & Whitney R-1340-AN-1 64 aircraft with this engine series · 550 hp
- Gold Coast Warbird Adventures INC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Miami, FL 801 aircraft registered in this town
- Miami Executive · TMB
- Miami International · MIA
- Miami-Opa Locka Executive · OPF
- Dade-Collier Training And Transition Airport · TNT
- 1 more landing places in town
- Florida 21,705 aircraft registered
- Failure reports on the Pratt & Whitney R-1340-AN-1 94 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N42897, 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 Gold Coast Warbird Adventures INC, a corporation, certificate issued December 17, 1999, expires January 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 25, 2010, 66 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 42-84211 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N42897 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 182L (serial 18259241, cancelled date not given). 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 N42897. 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 November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 10, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data