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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 10, 2026North American SNJ-2
N61563 is a North American SNJ-2, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1940. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Training Services INC T/A, a corporation in Virginia Beach, Virginia. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 28, 1998 and expires on April 30, 2029. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for aerial surveying, dated December 2, 1964.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- North American
- Model
- SNJ-2 · all SNJ-2s 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 North American SNJ-2 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
- 2025
- 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 R1340 SERIES · 600 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1940
- Cruising speed
- 141 mph
- Transponder code
- A80497 (octal 52002227)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- January 28, 1998
- Expires
- April 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 28, 2023
- Airworthiness
- RestrictedFAA airworthiness class code 3 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · Aerial surveyingFAA certificate purpose code 2 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · December 2, 1964
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00831376
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Training Services INC T/A
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 4455 South Blvd Ste 500
Virginia Beach, VA 23452-1159 - Co-owners
- Tidewater Tech
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N61563 links to the rest of the register
- North American SNJ-2 10 registered
- North American 1,297 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Pratt & Whitney R1340 series 1,229 aircraft with this engine series · 600 hp
- Training Services INC T/A 3 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Virginia Beach, VA 325 aircraft registered in this town
- Virginia 5,972 aircraft registered
- Failure reports filed on the North American SNJ-2 1 reports since 1995
- Failure reports on the Pratt & Whitney R1340 series 58 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N61563, 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 Training Services INC T/A, a corporation, certificate issued January 28, 1998, expires April 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated December 2, 1964, 24 years after the 1940 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 2025 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N61563 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]
2 NTSB records under N61563: Accident on October 15, 1993 at Skaneateles, NY: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal). Accident on October 9, 1983 at Fresno, CA: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 2
Aircraft on the NTSB record: North American SNJ-2 · operated under 091
The pilot's inadequate preflight preparation which failed to adequately secure cargo, resulting control interference. A factor was the overgross weight condition of the airplane.
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Aircraft on the NTSB record: North American SNJ-2 · operated under 091
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 10, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data