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N43RF

Lockheed WP-3D

Valid Florida

N43RF 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 March 17, 1976 and expires on October 31, 2029. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.

Aircraft

Maker
Lockheed
Model
WP-3D
Serial number
5633
Type
Fixed-wing, multi-engine
Power
Turboprop, 4 motors
Seats
21
Year built
Not given
Cruising speed
138 mph
Transponder code
A52242 (octal 51221102)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
March 17, 1976
Expires
October 31, 2029
Last FAA action
September 9, 2023
Airworthiness
None on file
FAA region
Southern
FAA record id
00542004

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
United States Department Of Commerce
Type
Government
Address
Noaa Aoc
3450 Flightline Dr
Lakeland, FL 33811-2836

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.

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N43RF, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to United States Department Of Commerce, a government body, certificate issued March 17, 1976, expires October 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate

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]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 5633 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N43RF according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N43RF. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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