North 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.
Aircraft
- Maker
- North American
- Model
- SNJ-2 · all SNJ-2s and related versions
- Serial number
- 2025
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · P&W R1340 SERIES · 600 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1940
- Cruising speed
- 141 mph
- Transponder code
- A80497 (octal 52002227)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 28, 1998
- Expires
- April 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- July 28, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Restricted · Aerial surveying · December 2, 1964
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00831376
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Training Services INC T/A
- Type
- Corporation
- 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.
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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]
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 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.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for NYC94LA009 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
Aircraft on the NTSB record: North American SNJ-2 · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for LAX84LA009 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data