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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 27, 2026Mcdonnell Douglas TA-4J
N524CF is a Mcdonnell Douglas TA-4J, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turbojet engines, built in 1967. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Collings Foundation, a corporation in Stow, Massachusetts. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 22, 2003 and expires on April 30, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated February 2, 2006.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Mcdonnell Douglas
- Model
- TA-4J
- Serial number
- 153524
- 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
- TurbojetFAA type of engine code 4 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1967
- Transponder code
- A69802 (octal 51514002)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- January 22, 2003
- Expires
- April 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 28, 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 · ExhibitionFAA certificate purpose code 3 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · February 2, 2006
- FAA region
- New EnglandFAA region code E (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00027729
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Collings 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
- PO Box 248
Stow, MA 01775-0248
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N524CF links to the rest of the register
- Mcdonnell Douglas 254 aircraft on the register
- Collings Foundation 9 aircraft in the fleet
- Stow, MA 48 aircraft registered in this town
- Minute Man Air Field · 6B6
- Massachusetts 2,648 aircraft registered
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The public federal record on N524CF, 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 Collings Foundation, a corporation, certificate issued January 22, 2003, expires April 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated February 2, 2006, 39 years after the 1967 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 153524 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N524CF 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 N524CF. 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 October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 27, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 27, 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 27, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data