Chance Vought F4U-5
N65WF is a Chance Vought F4U-5, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1948. It has 1 seat. It is registered to co-owned owners in Kalispell, Montana. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 9, 2024 and expires on February 28, 2031. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated October 23, 1992.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Chance Vought
- Model
- F4U-5 · all F4U-5s and related versions
- Serial number
- 122184
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · P & W R-2800 SERIES · 2000 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1948
- Transponder code
- A88C5B (octal 52106133)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 9, 2024
- Expires
- February 28, 2031
- Last FAA action
- February 9, 2024
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Exhibition · October 23, 1992
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00972516
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Smith James E Trustee
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- PO Box 8177
Kalispell, MT 59904-1177 - Co-owners
- Talcott Jeri K Trustee
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 N65WF, 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 Smith James E Trustee, a co-owned, certificate issued February 9, 2024, expires February 28, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated October 23, 1992, 44 years after the 1948 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 122184 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N65WF 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N65WF. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [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.
- 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