North American P-51D
N551W is a North American P-51D, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1943. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Latshaw Drilling & Exploration CO, a corporation in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 11, 2007 and expires on February 29, 2028. It holds a limited airworthiness certificate, dated April 2, 2004.
Aircraft
- Maker
- North American
- Model
- P-51D · all P-51Ds and related versions
- Serial number
- 109-28618
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Rolls-Royc V-1650-7 · 1180 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1943
- Transponder code
- A70516 (octal 51602426)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- August 11, 2007
- Expires
- February 29, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 21, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Limited · April 2, 2004
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00473854
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Latshaw Drilling & Exploration CO
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 691017
Tulsa, OK 74169-1017
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 N551W, 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 Latshaw Drilling & Exploration CO, a corporation, certificate issued August 11, 2007, expires February 29, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 2, 2004, 61 years after the 1943 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 109-28618 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N551W 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 N551W: Accident on July 29, 2008 at Tulsa, OK: 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 P-51D · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain aircraft control during takeoff.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for DFW08CA202 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
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