Bell P39
N6968 is a Bell P39, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1943. It has 1 seat. It is registered to American Airpower Heritage Flying Mu, a corporation in Dallas, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 6, 1991 and expires on May 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated October 7, 1980.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Bell
- Model
- P39 · all P39s 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. The Airacobra fighter. This is how the Bell P-39 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
- 219597
- 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 · Allison V1710 SERIES · 1500 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1943
- Cruising speed
- 262 mph
- Transponder code
- A94470 (octal 52242160)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- September 6, 1991
- Expires
- May 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 12, 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 · ExhibitionFAA certificate purpose code 3 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · October 7, 1980
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00360447
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- American Airpower Heritage Flying Mu
- 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
- PO Box 764769
Dallas, TX 75376-4769
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N6968 links to the rest of the register
- Bell P-39 5 registered
- Bell 3,079 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Allison (Rolls-Royce) V1710 series 70 aircraft with this engine series · 1500 hp
- American Airpower Heritage Flying Mu 16 aircraft in the fleet
- Dallas, TX 1,865 aircraft registered in this town
- Addison Airport · ADS
- Dallas Executive · RBD
- Dallas Love Field · DAL
- Mckinney Ntl Airport · TKI
- 3 more landing places in town
- Texas 29,956 aircraft registered
- Failure reports on the Allison (Rolls-Royce) V1710 series 5 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N6968, 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 American Airpower Heritage Flying Mu, a corporation, certificate issued September 6, 1991, expires May 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated October 7, 1980, 37 years after the 1943 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 219597 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N6968 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 N6968: Accident on April 18, 2005 at Fredericksburg, TX: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Bell P39 · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain directional control during the landing roll. A contributing factor was the reported partial failure of the left wheel brake.
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
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