Naval Aircraft Factory N3N-3
N45018 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 Newland, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 5, 2018 and expires on March 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for commuter, dated October 2, 1997.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Naval Aircraft Factory
- Model
- N3N-3 · all N3N-3s and related versions
- Serial number
- 2744
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Lycoming R680 · 215 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1941
- Cruising speed
- 94 mph
- Transponder code
- A574B8 (octal 51272270)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 5, 2018
- Expires
- March 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- February 14, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Commuter · October 2, 1997
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00512734
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Cook Randal J
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 120 Pine Ridge Loop
Newland, NC 28657-8421
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.
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The public federal record on N45018, 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 Cook Randal J, an individual, certificate issued March 5, 2018, expires March 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated October 2, 1997, 56 years after the 1941 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 2744 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N45018 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 N45018: Accident on November 18, 1997 at Spruce Pine, NC: no injuries, substantial 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 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Naval Aircraft Factory N3N-3 · operated under 091
The unintentional locking-up of the left brake for undetermined reasons resulting in the on ground loss of control. Contributing to the accident was the inability of the pilot to maintain directional control.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for MIA98LA027 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