Naval Aircraft Factory N3N-3
N4509T 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 Mcginnis Air LLC, an LLC in Rising Star, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 31, 2026 and expires on August 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated January 25, 1992.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Naval Aircraft Factory
- Model
- N3N-3 · all N3N-3s and related versions
- Serial number
- 4420
- 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
- A575C1 (octal 51272701)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 31, 2026
- Expires
- August 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- August 31, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · January 25, 1992
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00272764
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Mcginnis Air LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 301 County Rd 292
Rising Star, TX 76471
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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 N4509T, 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 Mcginnis Air LLC, an LLC, certificate issued August 31, 2026, expires August 31, 2033. 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 4420 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N4509T was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-32-300 (serial 32-7240083, cancelled December 5, 2011). 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 N4509T: Accident on August 11, 2006 at Saipan: 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: Piper PA-32-300 · operated under 091
A loss of engine power during the initial climb due to fuel starvation resulting from the pilot's improper fuel selector valve position selection and his failure to select a tank containing an adequate fuel supply. Contributing to the accident was the high vegetation and dark night lighting conditions.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX06FA258 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