Grumman F6F-5
N4994V is a Grumman F6F-5, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1944. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Planes Of Fame Air Museum, a corporation in Chino, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 7, 2005 and expires on March 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated May 1, 1980.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Grumman
- Model
- F6F-5 · all F6F-5s and related versions
- Serial number
- 93879
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · P & W R-2800 SERIES · 2000 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1944
- Cruising speed
- 278 mph
- Transponder code
- A6347F (octal 51432177)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 7, 2005
- Expires
- March 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 13, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Exhibition · May 1, 1980
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00640825
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Planes Of Fame Air Museum
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 14998 Cal Aero Dr
Chino, CA 91710-9056
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.
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N4994V, 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 Planes Of Fame Air Museum, a corporation, certificate issued April 7, 2005, expires March 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 1, 1980, 36 years after the 1944 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 93879 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N4994V 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]
2 NTSB records under N4994V: Accident on October 8, 2005 at Monterey, TN: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal). Accident on January 11, 2003 at Parker, AZ: fatal, substantial damage (2 fatal). 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Grumman F6F · operated under 091
The pilot's inadequate preflight planning and inadequate evaluation of the weather, inadequate visual lookout, and his failure to maintain clearance, resulted in the in-flight collision with power lines.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ATL06LA003 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Grumman F6F-5 · operated under 091
failure of both pilot's to see and avoid one another while maneuvering in the traffic pattern. A factor in the accident was the inability of the Cessna pilot to communicate on the CTAF frequency due to the limitations of his radios.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX03FA066 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
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