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Canadian Car & Foundry HARVARD MK IV
N52494 is a Canadian Car & Foundry HARVARD MK IV, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Navy Flight Trainer LLC, an LLC in Salem, South Carolina. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 17, 2022 and expires on December 31, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for racing; exhibition, dated May 6, 1988.
Where is it now Last seen yesterday at 8:37 am.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Canadian Car & Foundry
- Model
- HARVARD MK IV · all HARVARD MK IVs 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 Canadian Car & Foundry HARVARD MK IV 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
- CCF4-387
- 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 · P&W R1340 SERIES · 600 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 240 mph
- Transponder code
- A69B7A (octal 51515572)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- December 17, 2022
- Expires
- December 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- ExperimentalFAA airworthiness class code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Racing; ExhibitionFAA certificate purpose code 43 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · May 6, 1988
- FAA region
- SouthernFAA region code 7 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00454161
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Navy Flight Trainer 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
- 22 Marina Village Way
Salem, SC 29676-4502
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.
Earlier use of this number 2
Connections how N52494 links to the rest of the register
- Canadian Car & Foundry HARVARD MK IV 52 registered
- Canadian Car & Foundry 56 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Pratt & Whitney R1340 series 1,229 aircraft with this engine series · 600 hp
- Navy Flight Trainer LLC 2 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Salem, SC 10 aircraft registered in this town
- South Carolina 3,112 aircraft registered
- Failure reports on the Pratt & Whitney R1340 series 58 reports since 1995
- Where N52494 is now · Last seen yesterday at 8:37 am.
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The public federal record on N52494, 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 Navy Flight Trainer LLC, an LLC, certificate issued December 17, 2022, expires December 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for racing; exhibition; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial CCF4-387 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N52494 was previously assigned to 2 other aircraft: Boeing A75N1 (serial 75-4377, cancelled January 19, 1971); Cessna 182P (serial 18262645, cancelled date not given). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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]
2 NTSB records under N52494: Accident on July 25, 2024 at Oshkosh, WI: no injuries, substantial damage. Accident on August 15, 1986 at Glen Willow, OH: no injuries, destroyed. 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 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Canadian Car & Foundry HARVARD MK IV · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain directional control during the landing roll, which resulted in a ground loop.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Cessna 182 · operated under 091
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 10, 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 10, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data