Naval Aircraft Factory N3N-3
N45184 is a Naval Aircraft Factory N3N-3, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1940. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Iowa Military Aviation Heritage Museum, a corporation in Ankeny, Iowa. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 24, 2009 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for to show compliance with regulations, dated August 12, 1980.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Naval Aircraft Factory
- Model
- N3N-3 · all N3N-3s and related versions
- Serial number
- 2837
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · P&W R-985 SERIES · 450 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1940
- Cruising speed
- 94 mph
- Transponder code
- A57960 (octal 51274540)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 24, 2009
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- September 30, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · To show compliance with regulations · August 12, 1980
- FAA region
- Central
- FAA record id
- 00139418
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Iowa Military Aviation Heritage Museum
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 3704 Convenience Blvd
Ankeny, IA 50021-9418
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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 N45184, 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 Iowa Military Aviation Heritage Museum, a corporation, certificate issued April 24, 2009, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 12, 1980, 40 years after the 1940 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 2837 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N45184 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 N45184: Accident on May 5, 1990 at Madera, CA: 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 137
THE PILOT INADVERTENTLY DESCENDING INTO THE GROUND. CONTRIBUTING TO THE ACCIDENT WAS THE INFLIGHT OPENING OF THE HOPPER LID WHICH PARTIALLY OBSCURED THE PILOT'S VISION.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX90DVA03 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