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.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Canadian Car & Foundry
- Model
- HARVARD MK IV · all HARVARD MK IVs and related versions
- Serial number
- CCF4-387
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · P&W R1340 SERIES · 600 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 240 mph
- Transponder code
- A69B7A (octal 51515572)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- December 17, 2022
- Expires
- December 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Racing; Exhibition · May 6, 1988
- FAA region
- Southern
- FAA record id
- 00454161
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Navy Flight Trainer LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 22 Marina Village Way
Salem, SC 29676-4502
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 2
Records check free · 2 to understand · 2 clear
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 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 September 30, 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