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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026Grumman F8F-1
N58204 is a Grumman F8F-1, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1946. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Spitfire Ventures LLC, an LLC in San Antonio, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on December 9, 2023 and expires on December 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated December 5, 2000.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Grumman
- Model
- F8F-1 · all F8F-1s 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 Grumman F8 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
- 95255
- 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 R-2800 SERIES · 2000 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1946
- Cruising speed
- 341 mph
- Transponder code
- A77FCB (octal 51677713)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- December 9, 2023
- Expires
- December 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- December 9, 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 · December 5, 2000
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00815102
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Spitfire Ventures 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
- 10101 Reunion Pl Ste 1000
San Antonio, TX 78216-4157
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Connections how N58204 links to the rest of the register
- Grumman F8 14 registered
- Grumman 442 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Pratt & Whitney R-2800 series 173 aircraft with this engine series · 2000 hp
- Spitfire Ventures LLC 26 aircraft in the fleet
- San Antonio, TX 790 aircraft registered in this town
- Kelly Field · SKF
- San Antonio International · SAT
- Stinson Municipal · SSF
- Boerne Stage Airfield · 5C1
- 5 more landing places in town
- Texas 29,911 aircraft registered
- Approved modifications for the Grumman F8 3 supplemental type certificates
- Failure reports on the Pratt & Whitney R-2800 series 446 reports since 1995
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N58204.json.
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The public federal record on N58204, 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 Spitfire Ventures LLC, an LLC, certificate issued December 9, 2023, expires December 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated December 5, 2000, 54 years after the 1946 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 95255 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N58204 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Hughes 269C (serial 1280743, cancelled May 21, 1991). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [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 N58204: Accident on February 10, 1990 at Encinal, TX: 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: Hughes 269C · operated under 091
THE LOSS OF DIRECTIONAL CONTROL DUE TO THE FAILURE OF THE TAIL ROTOR CABLE.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data