North American F-51D
N551VC is a North American F-51D, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1944. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Planes Of Fame Air Museum, a corporation in Chino, California. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 5, 2018 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for racing; exhibition, dated August 7, 2014.
Aircraft
- Maker
- North American
- Model
- F-51D · all F-51Ds and related versions
- Serial number
- 44-73415
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Rolls-Royc MERLIN · 1760 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1944
- Cruising speed
- 277 mph
- Transponder code
- A70500 (octal 51602400)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 5, 2018
- Expires
- April 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 5, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Racing; Exhibition · August 7, 2014
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 00680317
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Planes Of Fame Air Museum
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 14998 Cal Aero Dr
Chino, CA 91710-9056
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.
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The public federal record on N551VC, 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 Planes Of Fame Air Museum, a corporation, certificate issued April 5, 2018, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 7, 2014, 70 years after the 1944 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 44-73415 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N551VC 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 N551VC. 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 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
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