North American F-51D
N551JP is a North American F-51D, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to an individual in El Cajon, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 18, 2019 and expires on March 31, 2029. It holds a limited airworthiness certificate, dated December 14, 1964. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).
Aircraft
- Maker
- North American
- Model
- F-51D · all F-51Ds and related versions
- Serial number
- 44-85634
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Pkrd-Roll V1650 SERIES · 1490 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 277 mph
- Transponder code
- A703F8 (octal 51601770)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- March 18, 2019
- Expires
- March 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 22, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Limited · December 14, 1964
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00011265
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Bagdasarian Walter DBA
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 9807 Quail Canyon Rd
El Cajon, CA 92021-6021 - Co-owners
- Bagdasarian Associates
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 1
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The public federal record on N551JP, 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 Bagdasarian Walter DBA, an individual, certificate issued March 18, 2019, expires March 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Limited certificate; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 44-85634 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N551JP according to the deregistered file. [2]
1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 22, 2026). [3]
1 NTSB record under N551JP: Accident on February 5, 2016 at Maricopa, AZ: fatal, substantial damage (2 fatal). 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 F51 · operated under 091
The pilot’s failure to maintain airplane control while performing an acrobatic maneuver and his subsequent failure to recover from an inadvertent spin due to insufficient altitude.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR16FA064 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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 August 27, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data