North American AT-6D
N515SA is a North American AT-6D, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1943. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Vintage Flying Machines INC, a corporation in Huntington, Indiana. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 2, 2025 and expires on July 31, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for to show compliance with regulations, dated March 4, 1997.
Aircraft
- Maker
- North American
- Model
- AT-6D · all AT-6Ds and related versions
- Serial number
- 8814953
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · P&W R1340 SERIES · 600 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1943
- Cruising speed
- 141 mph
- Transponder code
- A67593 (octal 51472623)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 2, 2025
- Expires
- July 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- July 2, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · To show compliance with regulations · March 4, 1997
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00436171
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Vintage Flying Machines INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 1355 Waco Dr
Huntington, IN 46750-0008
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.
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The public federal record on N515SA, 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 Vintage Flying Machines INC, a corporation, certificate issued July 2, 2025, expires July 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated March 4, 1997, 54 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]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 8814953 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N515SA 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 N515SA: Accident on May 2, 2022 at Huntington, IN: no 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: North American AT-6D · operated under 091
Loss of directional control during landing that resulted in an impact with terrain.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CEN22LA193 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data