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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 10, 2026Canadian Car & Foundry HARVARD MK IV
N514FS is a Canadian Car & Foundry HARVARD MK IV, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Dakota Aircraft INC, a corporation in Pierre, South Dakota. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 22, 2023 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated March 19, 1991.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Canadian Car & Foundry
- Model
- HARVARD MK IV · all HARVARD MK IVs and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Canadian Car & Foundry HARVARD MK IV 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
- CCF-4-172
- 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 · P&W R1340 SERIES · 600 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 240 mph
- Transponder code
- A670D9 (octal 51470331)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- January 22, 2023
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- January 28, 2023
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · ExhibitionFAA certificate purpose code 3 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · March 19, 1991
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00754760
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Dakota Aircraft 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
- 202 Neltom Dr
Pierre, SD 57501-4807
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N514FS links to the rest of the register
- Canadian Car & Foundry HARVARD MK IV 52 registered
- Canadian Car & Foundry 56 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Pratt & Whitney R1340 series 1,229 aircraft with this engine series · 600 hp
- Dakota Aircraft INC 8 aircraft in the fleet
- Pierre, SD 70 aircraft registered in this town
- Pierre Regional · PIR
- South Dakota 2,277 aircraft registered
- Failure reports on the Pratt & Whitney R1340 series 58 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N514FS, 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 Dakota Aircraft INC, a corporation, certificate issued January 22, 2023, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for exhibition; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial CCF-4-172 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N514FS 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N514FS. 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 November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 10, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data