Naval Aircraft Factory N3N-3
N51H is a Naval Aircraft Factory N3N-3, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1941. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Salisbury, North Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 18, 2024 and expires on May 31, 2031. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 8, 1971.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Naval Aircraft Factory
- Model
- N3N-3 · all N3N-3s and related versions
- Serial number
- 2660
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Wright 760A B D E&ET · 250 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1941
- Cruising speed
- 94 mph
- Transponder code
- A65FC5 (octal 51457705)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 18, 2024
- Expires
- May 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- May 18, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · December 8, 1971
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00041265
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Pendleton Terry
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 1645 Leonard Rd
Salisbury, NC 28146-2430
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 N51H, 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 Pendleton Terry, an individual, certificate issued May 18, 2024, expires May 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated December 8, 1971, 30 years after the 1941 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 2660 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N51H 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 N51H: Accident on September 19, 1982 at Danville, IL: 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: Navy N3N-3 · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI82DA360 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