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N5215V

Chance Vought F4U-4

Valid Florida

N5215V is a Chance Vought F4U-4, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1945. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in Polk City, Florida. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 8, 1990 and expires on March 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated August 16, 1982.

Aircraft

Maker
Chance Vought
Model
F4U-4 · all F4U-4s and related versions
Serial number
9440
Type
Fixed-wing, single engine
Power
Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · P & W R-2800 SERIES · 2000 hp
Seats
1
Year built
1945
Cruising speed
202 mph
Transponder code
A68FC0 (octal 51507700)

Registration

Status
Valid registration
Certificate issued
March 8, 1990
Expires
March 31, 2030
Last FAA action
October 13, 2023
Airworthiness
Experimental · Exhibition · August 16, 1982
FAA region
Southern
FAA record id
00962345

Owner as the FAA publishes it

Name
Weeks Kermit A
Type
Individual
Address
1400 Broadway Blvd SE
Polk City, FL 33868-9109

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Documents on file 0

No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.

Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear

The public federal record on N5215V, 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.

CLEARRegistration and identity

Valid registration to Weeks Kermit A, an individual, certificate issued March 8, 1990, expires March 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]

ATTENTIONAirworthiness certificate date

The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 16, 1982, 37 years after the 1945 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]

CLEARPrior registrations of this airframe

No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 9440 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]

CLEARTail number reuse

No other airframe has carried N5215V according to the deregistered file. [2]

NOTERecent registry documents

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]

CLEARAccident and incident record

No NTSB investigation records located under N5215V. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]

PENDINGTitle chain, liens and 337 forms

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.

PENDINGAirworthiness directives and utilization

AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.

CLEAR the source was checked and shows no adverse findingATTENTION a fact a buyer or lender should understand, often routineNOTE context onlyPENDING covered by the full report
  1. FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  2. FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  3. FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
  4. NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through August 27, 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, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data