Curtiss Wright P-40E
N4420K is a Curtiss Wright P-40E, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Rare Birds Montana LLC, an LLC in Hamilton, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 24, 2023 and expires on January 31, 2030. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Curtiss Wright
- Model
- P-40E · all P-40Es and related versions
- Serial number
- AK75315134
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 263 mph
- Transponder code
- A5546D (octal 51252155)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 24, 2023
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- January 24, 2023
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00177101
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Rare Birds Montana LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 571 Inverness Trl
Hamilton, MT 59840-9298
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 · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N4420K, 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 Rare Birds Montana LLC, an LLC, certificate issued January 24, 2023, expires January 31, 2030. 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 AK75315134 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N4420K was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Berryhill Lonnie GUPPY SNS2 (serial 233, cancelled October 15, 1991). 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]
2 NTSB records under N4420K: Accident on June 27, 2023 at Hamilton, MT: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal). Incident on October 24, 2009 at Lincoln, NE: no injuries, minor damage. 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.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Curtiss Wright P-40E · operated under 091
A loss of engine power for undetermined reasons.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR23FA244 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Curtiss Wright P-40E · operated under 091
The right landing gear's partial retraction during landing due to paint contamination of the landing gear handle detent.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN10IA030 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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