Chance Vought/Hill L Clarke F4U-5NL
N45NL is a Chance Vought/Hill L Clarke F4U-5NL, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1951. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Cct Of 1979 B-24 Series LLC Corsair Series, an LLC in Stow, Massachusetts. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 22, 2007 and expires on November 30, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated February 14, 1997.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Chance Vought/Hill L Clarke
- Model
- F4U-5NL
- Serial number
- 124692C
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · P & W R-2800 SERIES · 2000 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1951
- Transponder code
- A570FA (octal 51270372)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 22, 2007
- Expires
- November 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 15, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Exhibition · February 14, 1997
- FAA region
- New England
- FAA record id
- 00656351
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Cct Of 1979 B-24 Series LLC Corsair Series
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- PO Box 248
Stow, MA 01775-0248
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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 N45NL, 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 Cct Of 1979 B-24 Series LLC Corsair Series, an LLC, certificate issued March 22, 2007, expires November 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated February 14, 1997, 46 years after the 1951 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 124692C for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N45NL 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 N45NL: Accident on April 4, 1997 at New Smyrna Bch, FL: no injuries, substantial damage. 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: Chance Vought F4U · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to assure that an adequate supply of fuel was on board for the intended flight.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for MIA97LA113 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data