Naval Aircraft Factory N3N-3
N44923 is a Naval Aircraft Factory N3N-3, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1941. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Grass Valley, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 8, 1995 and expires on March 31, 2029. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for agriculture and pest control.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Naval Aircraft Factory
- Model
- N3N-3 · all N3N-3s and related versions
- Serial number
- 4397
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Wright 760A B D E&ET · 250 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1941
- Cruising speed
- 94 mph
- Transponder code
- A56EC6 (octal 51267306)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 8, 1995
- Expires
- March 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- January 25, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Agriculture and pest control
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00138048
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Ponte Ralph M
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 13052 Loma Rica Dr
Grass Valley, CA 95945-8434 - Co-owners
- Rpm Aviation
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Records check free · 0 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N44923, 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 Ponte Ralph M, an individual, certificate issued November 8, 1995, expires March 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Restricted certificate for agriculture and pest control; the FAA file gives no certificate date. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 4397 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N44923 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N44923. 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