North American AT-6G
N5296V is a North American AT-6G, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Thunder Aviation LLC, an LLC in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 4, 2014 and expires on February 28, 2030. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated October 27, 1960.
Where is it now Last seen November 1 at 2:49 pm.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- North American
- Model
- AT-6G · all AT-6Gs 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 AT-6 Texan 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
- 49-3057
- 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
- 141 mph
- Transponder code
- A6AD9B (octal 51526633)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- February 4, 2014
- Expires
- February 28, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 7, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · October 27, 1960
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00082625
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Thunder Aviation 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
- 1534 River Highlands Dr
Oconomowoc, WI 53066-3433
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.
Connections how N5296V links to the rest of the register
- North American AT-6 Texan 228 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
- Pratt & Whitney R1340 series 1,229 aircraft with this engine series · 600 hp
- Thunder Aviation LLC 2 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Oconomowoc, WI 58 aircraft registered in this town
- Wisconsin 6,161 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the North American AT-6 Texan 10 airworthiness directives
- Approved modifications for the North American AT-6 Texan 117 supplemental type certificates
- Failure reports on the Pratt & Whitney R1340 series 58 reports since 1995
- Where N5296V is now · Last seen November 1 at 2:49 pm.
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The public federal record on N5296V, 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 Thunder Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued February 4, 2014, expires February 28, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 49-3057 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N5296V 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]
1 NTSB record under N5296V: Accident on October 14, 2000 at Ridgeway, VA: no injuries, substantial damage. 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 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: North American AT-6G · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain proper runway alignment during the landing roll. A factor in this accident was a slight bend in the runway.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 12, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data