North American/Aero Classics P-51D
N51MR is a North American/Aero Classics P-51D, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1944. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Kempf Brothers Aviation Partnership, a partnership in La Center, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 19, 2013 and expires on April 30, 2029. It holds a limited airworthiness certificate, dated September 8, 1961.
Aircraft
- Maker
- North American/Aero Classics
- Model
- P-51D · all P-51Ds and related versions
- Serial number
- 44-73163
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Pkrd-Roll V1650 SERIES · 1490 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1944
- Cruising speed
- 277 mph
- Transponder code
- A66039 (octal 51460071)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 19, 2013
- Expires
- April 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 28, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Limited · September 8, 1961
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00521275
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Kempf Brothers Aviation Partnership
- Type
- Partnership
- Address
- 4403 NE 290Th St
La Center, WA 98629-2003 - Co-owners
- Kempf Thomas M / Kempf Randall P / Kempf Douglas A
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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 N51MR, 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 Kempf Brothers Aviation Partnership, a partnership, certificate issued April 19, 2013, expires April 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated September 8, 1961, 17 years after the 1944 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 44-73163 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N51MR 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 N51MR: Accident on September 3, 1989 at Mar Vista, CA: serious 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 P51D · operated under 091
THE PILOT'S POOR IN-FLIGHT PLANNING IN ATTEMPTING TO IMMEDIATELY RETURN TO THE AIRPORT AND NOT FOLLOWING ESTABLISHED PROCEDURES AFTER THE LOSS OF POWER AFTER TAKEOFF. THE FAILURE OF AN INTAKE VALVE WAS A FACTOR IN THE ACCIDENT.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX89FA295 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