Chance Vought F4U-4
N712RD 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 racing; exhibition, dated June 25, 1980.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Chance Vought
- Model
- F4U-4 · all F4U-4s and related versions
- Serial number
- 97280
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · P & W R-2800 SERIES · 2000 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 202 mph
- Transponder code
- A984F6 (octal 52302366)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- January 10, 2014
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- September 30, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Racing; Exhibition · June 25, 1980
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00420535
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Corsair Enterprises INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 3511 Silverside Rd Ste 105
Wilmington, DE 19810-4902
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.
Records check free · 1 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N712RD, 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 racing; exhibition; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 97280 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N712RD 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 N712RD: Accident on July 29, 1999 at Oshkosh, WI: serious injuries, destroyed. 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: Chance Vought F4U-4 · operated under 091
The pilot not following the instructions briefed by the formation leader, and the pilot not maintaining clearance from the formation lead airplane. A factor relating to this accident was the area of restricted visibility in front of the pilot when the airplane sits on its tailwheel.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for CHI99FA266 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data