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North American F-51D
N51KB is a North American F-51D, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1961. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Mustang Pilots LLC, an LLC in Knoxville, Tennessee. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 15, 2006 and expires on April 30, 2029. It holds a limited airworthiness certificate, dated September 8, 1961.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- North American
- Model
- F-51D · all F-51Ds 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 North American F-51 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
- 44-74009
- 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 · Pkrd-Roll V1650 SERIES · 1490 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1961
- Cruising speed
- 277 mph
- Transponder code
- A65FF9 (octal 51457771)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- November 15, 2006
- Expires
- April 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 28, 2023
- Airworthiness
- LimitedFAA airworthiness class code 2 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · September 8, 1961
- FAA region
- CentralFAA region code 3 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00803590
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Mustang Pilots LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 8733 Inlet Dr
Knoxville, TN 37922-6459
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.
Connections how N51KB links to the rest of the register
- North American F-51 54 registered
- North American 1,297 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Packard (Rolls-Royce Merlin) V1650 series 87 aircraft with this engine series · 1490 hp
- Mustang Pilots LLC 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Knoxville, TN 385 aircraft registered in this town
- MC Ghee Tyson Airport · TYS
- Knoxville Downtown Island Airport · DKX
- Tennessee 6,533 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N51KB.json.
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The public federal record on N51KB, 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 Mustang Pilots LLC, an LLC, certificate issued November 15, 2006, expires April 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Limited certificate, dated September 8, 1961, consistent with the 1961 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 44-74009 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N51KB 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 N51KB. 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 9, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 9, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 9, 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 9, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data