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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 3, 2026Chance 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.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Chance Vought
- Model
- F4U-5 · all F4U-5s 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 Chance Vought F4 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
- 122184
- 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
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1948
- Transponder code
- A88C5B (octal 52106133)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- February 9, 2024
- Expires
- February 28, 2031
- Last FAA action
- February 9, 2024
- 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 · October 23, 1992
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00972516
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Smith James e Trustee
- Type
- Co-ownedFAA type of owner code 4 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- 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.
Connections how N65WF links to the rest of the register
- Chance Vought F4 19 registered
- Chance Vought 21 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
- Kalispell, MT 1,287 aircraft registered in this town
- Glacier Park International · GPI
- Kalispell City Airport · S27
- Montana 6,047 aircraft registered
- Failure reports on the Pratt & Whitney R-2800 series 446 reports since 1995
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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 November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 3, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 3, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data