Naval Aircraft Factory N3N-3
N45053 is a Naval Aircraft Factory N3N-3, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Arkport, New York. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 15, 1999 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated June 3, 1998.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Naval Aircraft Factory
- Model
- N3N-3 · all N3N-3s and related versions
- Serial number
- 1983
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · P&W R-985 SERIES · 450 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 94 mph
- Transponder code
- A5753F (octal 51272477)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 15, 1999
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- September 30, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · June 3, 1998
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00138718
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Molyneux Gregory L
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 546 State Route 70
Arkport, NY 14807-9611
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 · 2 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N45053, 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 Molyneux Gregory L, an individual, certificate issued April 15, 1999, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate for normal; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 1983 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N45053 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 150M (serial 15076714, cancelled March 25, 1975). 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]
1 NTSB record under N45053: Accident on June 20, 1998 at Skull Valley, AZ: serious injuries, destroyed. 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 pilot's failure to maintain control of the aircraft while maneuvering at a low altitude.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX98LA207 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