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N4698T

Lockheed T-33A

Valid Illinois

N4698T is a Lockheed T-33A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turbojet engines, built in 1954. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Prairie Aviation Museum INC, a corporation in Bloomington, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 15, 1996 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate.

Aircraft

Maker
Lockheed
Model
T-33A · all T-33As and related versions
Serial number
9461
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Turbojet, 1 motor · Allison J33-A SERIES · 635 hp
Seats
2
Year built
1954
Cruising speed
393 mph
Transponder code
A5BE8C (octal 51337214)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
March 15, 1996
Expires
April 30, 2030
Last FAA action
October 20, 2023
Airworthiness
Standard
FAA region
Great Lakes
FAA record id
00343394

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Prairie Aviation Museum INC
Type
Corporation
Address
2929 E Empire St
Bloomington, IL 61704-5452

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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 · 0 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N4698T, 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 Prairie Aviation Museum INC, a corporation, certificate issued March 15, 1996, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

NOTEAirworthiness certificate

Standard certificate; the FAA file gives no certificate date. [1]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 9461 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N4698T 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 N4698T. 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