Northrop F-5A
N685TC is a Northrop F-5A, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbojet engines, built in 1968. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Magnus Caro LLC, an LLC in Alpine, Wyoming. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 23, 2025 and expires on February 29, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated July 2, 2008.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Northrop
- Model
- F-5A · all F-5As 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 Northrop F-5 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
- 1009
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engineFAA type of aircraft code 5 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Power
- TurbojetFAA type of engine code 4 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 2 motors · Ge J85 SER · 2,950 lb thrust
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1968
- Transponder code
- A91776 (octal 52213566)
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 23, 2025
- Expires
- February 29, 2032
- Last FAA action
- February 23, 2025
- 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 · July 2, 2008
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00474372
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Magnus Caro LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 102 US Highway 89 Unit 3825
Alpine, WY 83128-1035
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
Connections how N685TC links to the rest of the register
- Northrop F-5 41 registered
- Northrop 81 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- General Electric J85 series 22 aircraft with this engine series · 2,950 lb thrust
- Magnus Caro LLC 2 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Alpine, WY 65 aircraft registered in this town
- Alpine Airport · 46U
- Wyoming 3,230 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N685TC.json.
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The public federal record on N685TC, 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 Magnus Caro LLC, an LLC, certificate issued February 23, 2025, expires February 29, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated July 2, 2008, 40 years after the 1968 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 1009 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N685TC was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Connor Timothy J MONNETT MONI (serial 279, cancelled date not given). 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 N685TC: Accident on December 30, 1985 at Perry, OH: minor 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: Monnet MONI · operated under 091
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 26, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data