North American F-86A
N48178 is a North American F-86A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turbojet engines, built in 1948. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Heritage Air LLC, an LLC in Grove, Oklahoma. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 25, 2014 and expires on November 30, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated September 4, 2015.
Aircraft
- Maker
- North American
- Model
- F-86A · all F-86As and related versions
- Serial number
- 48178
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Turbojet, 1 motor · Ge J47 SERIES · 300 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1948
- Cruising speed
- 390 mph
- Transponder code
- A5EFBE (octal 51367676)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 25, 2014
- Expires
- November 30, 2027
- Last FAA action
- April 1, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Exhibition · September 4, 2015
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00880533
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Heritage Air LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 337 Airport Dr
Grove, OK 74344-4108
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 2
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N48178, 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 Heritage Air LLC, an LLC, certificate issued November 25, 2014, expires November 30, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated September 4, 2015, 67 years after the 1948 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 48178 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N48178 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Boeing A75N1 (serial 75-1007, cancelled January 14, 1955); Cessna 152 (serial 15283296, cancelled date not given). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N48178. 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 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
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