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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 26, 2026Polikarpov I-16 TYPE 24
N7459 is a Polikarpov I-16 TYPE 24, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1940. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Wartime History Museum INC, a corporation in Tacoma, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on March 3, 2023 and expires on March 31, 2030. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated February 12, 2009.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Polikarpov
- Model
- I-16 TYPE 24
- Serial number
- 2421014
- 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 · Wsk-Pzl ASZ-621R-16 · 967 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1940
- Transponder code
- AA08B0 (octal 52404260)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- March 3, 2023
- Expires
- March 31, 2030
- Last FAA action
- March 25, 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 · February 12, 2009
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00893707
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Wartime History Museum 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
- 2602 S 38Th St Ste A #42
Tacoma, WA 98409
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Connections how N7459 links to the rest of the register
- Polikarpov 9 aircraft on the register
- Wsk-Pzl ASZ-621R-16 2 aircraft with this engine series · 967 hp
- Wartime History Museum INC 27 aircraft in the fleet
- Tacoma, WA 137 aircraft registered in this town
- Tacoma Narrows Airport · TIW
- Washington 10,571 aircraft registered
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The public federal record on N7459, 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 Wartime History Museum INC, a corporation, certificate issued March 3, 2023, expires March 31, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated February 12, 2009, 69 years after the 1940 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 2421014 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N7459 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Vickers VISCOUNT 797 (serial 214, cancelled March 17, 1971). 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]
1 NTSB record under N7459: Accident on January 12, 1987 at Lanai, HI: no injuries, substantial damage. 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: Cessna 172K · operated under 091
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- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 26, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 26, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data