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N4730, a Curtiss Wright P-40N
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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026
N4730

Curtiss Wright P-40N

ValidFAA registration status code V: Valid registration. All codesOregon

N4730 is a Curtiss Wright P-40N, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1943. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Soaring By the Sea Foundation INC, a corporation in Eugene, Oregon. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 28, 2024 and expires on June 30, 2031. It holds a limited airworthiness certificate, dated September 4, 2024.

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Aircraft

Maker
Curtiss Wright
Model
P-40N · all P-40Ns and related versions
Built of
aluminium
The airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Curtiss Wright P-40 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
28492
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 · Allison V1710 SER · 1500 hp
Seats
1
Year built
1943
Cruising speed
263 mph
Transponder code
A5CE97 (octal 51347227)

Registration

Status
Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Certificate issued
June 28, 2024
Expires
June 30, 2031
Last FAA action
June 28, 2024
Airworthiness
LimitedFAA airworthiness class code 2 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · September 4, 2024
FAA region
Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
FAA record id
01457305

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Soaring By the Sea Foundation INC
Type
CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
Address
3455 W 1St Ave
Eugene, OR 97402-5449

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Documents on file 0

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

Earlier use of this number 3

2012-09-17Airbus Industrie A300 B4-622R · exported to Germany · Valid registration
1994-07-14Boeing 727-235 · Valid registration
1929-07-25American Eagle A-1 · Valid registration

Connections how N4730 links to the rest of the register

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Engine
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Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear

The public federal record on N4730, 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 Soaring By the Sea Foundation INC, a corporation, certificate issued June 28, 2024, expires June 30, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated September 4, 2024, 81 years after the 1943 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 28492 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

ATTENTIONTail number reuse

N4730 was previously assigned to 3 other aircraft: Airbus Industrie A300 B4-622R (serial 730, cancelled September 17, 2012); Boeing 727-235 (serial 19450, cancelled July 14, 1994); American Eagle A-1 (serial 123, cancelled July 25, 1929). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N4730. 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 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. 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