Canadian Car & Foundry HARVARD MK IV
N5101W is a Canadian Car & Foundry HARVARD MK IV, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1952. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Corpus Christi, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 25, 2026 and expires on April 30, 2033. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated December 17, 1996.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Canadian Car & Foundry
- Model
- HARVARD MK IV · all HARVARD MK IVs and related versions
- Serial number
- 192
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · P&W R1340 SERIES · 600 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1952
- Cruising speed
- 240 mph
- Transponder code
- A663FF (octal 51461777)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 25, 2026
- Expires
- April 30, 2033
- Last FAA action
- April 25, 2026
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Exhibition · December 17, 1996
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00191275
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Shores Jack
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 15217 Pecos River Rd
Corpus Christi, TX 78410
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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 N5101W, 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 Shores Jack, an individual, certificate issued April 25, 2026, expires April 30, 2033. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated December 17, 1996, 44 years after the 1952 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 192 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N5101W 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 N5101W: Accident on July 14, 1998 at Dyersville, IA: minor 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: Canadian Car & Foundry HARVARD MK IV · operated under 091
the pilot in command's not maintaining control of the airplane and his inadvertently allowing the airplane to enter a stall. A factor was the undetermined loss of engine power.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI98LA250 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