Grumman 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.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Grumman
- Model
- F8F-1 · all F8F-1s and related versions
- Serial number
- 95255
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 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 registration
- Certificate issued
- December 9, 2023
- Expires
- December 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- December 9, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Exhibition · December 5, 2000
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00815102
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Spitfire Ventures LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 10101 Reunion Pl Ste 1000
San Antonio, TX 78216-4157
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.
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 3 to understand · 2 clear
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.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW90LA065 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