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North American F-51D
N51RT is a North American F-51D, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1944. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Royal Air Force Museum American Foundation, a corporation in Washington, District of Columbia. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 8, 2006 and expires on October 31, 2028. It holds a limited airworthiness certificate, dated July 13, 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
- 44-74409A
- 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
- 1944
- Cruising speed
- 277 mph
- Transponder code
- A6609F (octal 51460237)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- September 8, 2006
- Expires
- October 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 16, 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 · July 13, 1961
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00943545
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Royal Air Force Museum American Foundation
- 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
- One Metro Center
700 12Th St NW Ste 700
Washington, DC 20005-4052
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N51RT 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
- Royal Air Force Museum American Foundation 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Washington, DC 393 aircraft registered in this town
- Ronald Reagan Washington Ntl Airport · DCA
- Washington Dulles International · IAD
- Washington Manassas/Harry P Davis Field · HEF
- South Capitol Street Heliport · 09W
- District of Columbia 398 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N51RT.json.
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The public federal record on N51RT, 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 Royal Air Force Museum American Foundation, a corporation, certificate issued September 8, 2006, expires October 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated July 13, 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 44-74409A for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N51RT 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 N51RT. 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