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N459JP

Canadian Car & Foundry HARVARD MK IV

N459JP is a Canadian Car & Foundry HARVARD MK IV, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1952. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Minot, North Dakota. The registration is valid: it was issued on October 4, 2022 and expires on October 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated April 17, 1989.

Aircraft

Maker
Canadian Car & Foundry
Model
HARVARD MK IV · all HARVARD MK IVs and related versions
Serial number
20459
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · P&W R1340 SERIES · 600 hp
Seats
2
Year built
1952
Cruising speed
240 mph
Transponder code
A59461 (octal 51312141)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
October 4, 2022
Expires
October 31, 2029
Last FAA action
September 9, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Exhibition · April 17, 1989
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
00553630

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Pietsch Warren A DBA
Type
Individual
Address
2216 N Broadway
Minot, ND 58703-1011
Co-owners
Pietsch Airshows

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N459JP, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Pietsch Warren A DBA, an individual, certificate issued October 4, 2022, expires October 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 17, 1989, 37 years after the 1952 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]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 20459 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N459JP according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N459JP. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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