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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 29, 2026Boeing-Vertol CH-46E
N5316F is a Boeing-Vertol CH-46E, a rotorcraft with turboshaft engines (a helicopter or multicopter), built in 1968. It has 25 seats. It is registered to National United States Armed Forces Museum, a corporation in Houston, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 12, 2022 and expires on September 30, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated June 16, 2023.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Boeing-Vertol
- Model
- CH-46E · all CH-46Es 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 Boeing-Vertol CH-46 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
- 155316
- Type
- RotorcraftFAA type of aircraft code 6 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- TurboshaftFAA type of engine code 3 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 2 motors · Ge T58 SERIES · 1350 hp
- Seats
- 25
- Year built
- 1968
- Transponder code
- A6B754 (octal 51533524)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- September 12, 2022
- Expires
- September 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 2, 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 · June 16, 2023
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01374069
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- National United States Armed Forces Museum
- 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
- 8611 Wallisville Rd
Houston, TX 77029-1313
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N5316F links to the rest of the register
- Boeing-Vertol CH-46 5 registered
- Boeing-Vertol 24 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- General Electric T58 series 17 aircraft with this engine series · 1350 hp
- Type certificate R0013DE · held by Sky Aviation CORP
- National United States Armed Forces Museum 6 aircraft in the fleet
- Houston, TX 1,179 aircraft registered in this town
- Conroe/North Houston Regional · CXO
- David Wayne Hooks Memorial · DWH
- Ellington Airport · EFD
- George Bush Intcntl/Houston Airport · IAH
- 8 more landing places in town
- Texas 29,943 aircraft registered
- FAA orders naming the General Electric T58 series 8 airworthiness directives
- Failure reports on the General Electric T58 series 2 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N5316F, 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 National United States Armed Forces Museum, a corporation, certificate issued September 12, 2022, expires September 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated June 16, 2023, 55 years after the 1968 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 155316 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N5316F 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 N5316F. 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 29, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 29, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 29, 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 29, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data