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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026Naval Aircraft Factory N3N-3
N45222 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 Hudson, Wisconsin. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 24, 2026 and expires on July 31, 2033. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated April 7, 1956.
Where is it now Last seen October 11 at 3:21 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Naval Aircraft Factory
- Model
- N3N-3 · all N3N-3s and related versions
- Built of
- steel tube and fabricThe fuselage is a welded steel-tube frame covered in fabric, with metal or wooden wing spars under fabric-covered wings; the fabric is replaced every few decades. The N3N trainer: an aluminium structure under fabric. This is how the Naval Aircraft Factory N3 family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- 2734
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor · Wright 760A B D E&ET · 250 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1941
- Cruising speed
- 94 mph
- Transponder code
- A57C43 (octal 51276103)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- July 24, 2026
- Expires
- July 31, 2033
- Last FAA action
- July 24, 2026
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · April 7, 1956
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00882794
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Rankin Paul D
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 733 Wilfred Rd
Hudson, WI 54016-7684
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N45222 links to the rest of the register
- Naval Aircraft Factory N3 145 registered
- Naval Aircraft Factory 145 aircraft on the register
- Built of steel tube and fabric · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Wright 760A B D E&ET 68 aircraft with this engine series · 250 hp
- Hudson, WI 51 aircraft registered in this town
- Wisconsin 6,166 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the Naval Aircraft Factory N3 1 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports filed on the Naval Aircraft Factory N3 1 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Naval Aircraft Factory N3 4 supplemental type certificates
- Where N45222 is now · Last seen October 11 at 3:21 pm.
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The public federal record on N45222, 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 Rankin Paul D, an individual, certificate issued July 24, 2026, expires July 31, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 7, 1956, 15 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 2734 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N45222 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 N45222. 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 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data