Chance Vought F4U-4
N72378 is a Chance Vought F4U-4, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1946. It has 1 seat. It is registered to co-owned owners in Wahpeton, North Dakota. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 17, 2010 and expires on November 30, 2029. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated July 20, 1998.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Chance Vought
- Model
- F4U-4 · all F4U-4s and related versions
- Serial number
- 97388
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · P & W R-2800 SERIES · 2000 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1946
- Cruising speed
- 202 mph
- Transponder code
- A9B21F (octal 52331037)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 17, 2010
- Expires
- November 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- September 15, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Exhibition · July 20, 1998
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00383158
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Schreiber-Beck Cynthia K
- Type
- Co-owned
- Address
- 1251 Pegasus Rd
Wahpeton, ND 58075-4868 - Co-owners
- Beck Whitney S
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 N72378, 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 Schreiber-Beck Cynthia K, a co-owned, certificate issued February 17, 2010, expires November 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated July 20, 1998, 52 years after the 1946 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 97388 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N72378 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna TU206D (serial U2061387, cancelled August 21, 1991). 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 N72378. 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