Consolidated Vultee PBY-6A
N7179Y is a Consolidated Vultee PBY-6A, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1945. It has 4 seats. It is registered to American Airpwr Heritage Fly Museum, a corporation in Dallas, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 21, 1994 and expires on January 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated September 10, 1991.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Consolidated Vultee
- Model
- PBY-6A · all PBY-6As and related versions
- Serial number
- 225
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 2 motors · P & W R-1830 SERIES · 1350 hp
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1945
- Cruising speed
- 127 mph
- Transponder code
- A999B8 (octal 52314670)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- April 21, 1994
- Expires
- January 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- September 30, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Exhibition · September 10, 1991
- FAA region
- Southwestern
- FAA record id
- 00185361
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- American Airpwr Heritage Fly Museum
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 764769
Dallas, TX 75376-4769
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
Records check free · 2 to understand · 3 clear
The public federal record on N7179Y, 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 Airpwr Heritage Fly Museum, a corporation, certificate issued April 21, 1994, expires January 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated September 10, 1991, 46 years after the 1945 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 225 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N7179Y was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Piper PA-30 (serial 30-199, cancelled December 3, 1964). 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N7179Y. 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 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
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 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data