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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 3, 2026Chance Vought F4U-4
N68HP is a Chance Vought F4U-4, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Corsair Enterprises INC, a corporation in Wilmington, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 10, 2014 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition; racing, dated May 12, 1980.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Chance Vought
- Model
- F4U-4 · all F4U-4s 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
- 97302
- 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 · None NONE
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 202 mph
- Transponder code
- A9019B (octal 52200633)
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 10, 2014
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- September 30, 2023
- 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 · Exhibition; RacingFAA certificate purpose code 34 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · May 12, 1980
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00403576
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Corsair Enterprises INC
- 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
- 3511 Silverside Rd Ste 105
Wilmington, DE 19810-4902
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N68HP 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
- Corsair Enterprises INC 3 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Wilmington, DE 7,378 aircraft registered in this town
- New Castle Airport · ILG
- Delaware 10,969 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N68HP.json.
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The public federal record on N68HP, 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 Corsair Enterprises INC, a corporation, certificate issued January 10, 2014, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for exhibition; racing; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 97302 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N68HP 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]
1 NTSB record under N68HP: Accident on April 1, 1993 at Breckenridge, TX: minor injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Chance Vought F4U-4 · operated under 091
THE LOSS OF ENGINE POWER FOR UNDETERMINED REASONS. A FACTOR WAS THE LACK OF SUITABLE TERRAIN FOR THE FORCED LANDING
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 3, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data