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Lockheed WP-3D
N42RF is a Lockheed WP-3D, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turboprop engines. It has 21 seats. It is registered to United States Department of Commerce, a government body in Lakeland, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 26, 1976 and expires on July 31, 2029. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
Where is it now Last seen October 8 at 5:28 am.
Last seen October 8 at 5:28 am. Checking whether it is in the air right now…
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Lockheed
- Model
- WP-3D
- Serial number
- 5622
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engineFAA type of aircraft code 5 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- TurbopropFAA type of engine code 2 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 4 motors
- Seats
- 21
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 138 mph
- Transponder code
- A4FAC3 (octal 51175303)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- February 26, 1976
- Expires
- July 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00131654
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- United States Department of Commerce
- Type
- GovernmentFAA type of owner code 5 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 3450 Flightline Dr
Lakeland, FL 33811-2836 - Co-owners
- Noaa Aircraft Operations Center / Aircraft Operations Center
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N42RF links to the rest of the register
- Lockheed 197 aircraft on the register
- United States Department Of Commerce 7 aircraft in the fleet
- Lakeland, FL 353 aircraft registered in this town
- Lakeland Linder International · LAL
- South Lakeland Airport · X49
- Florida 21,696 aircraft registered
- Where N42RF is now · Last seen October 8 at 5:28 am.
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The public federal record on N42RF, 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 United States Department of Commerce, a government body, certificate issued February 26, 1976, expires July 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 5622 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N42RF 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]
1 NTSB record under N42RF: Incident on November 9, 2007 at AO: no injuries. 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.
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Lockheed WP-3D · operated under PUBU
Extensive salt buildup in the inlets of all four engines, which resulted in compressor stalls and tailpipe fires in three of the four engines.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 4, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data