Mcdonnell Douglas F4D
N749CF is a Mcdonnell Douglas F4D, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbojet engines, built in 1965. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Collings Foundation, a corporation in Stow, Massachusetts. The registration is valid: it was issued on July 9, 1999 and expires on October 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated May 18, 2005. 1 document is on file: loan or lien (security agreement).
Aircraft
- Maker
- Mcdonnell Douglas
- Model
- F4D
- Serial number
- 65-0749
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turbojet, 2 motors · Ge JT79 SERIES · 1580 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1965
- Transponder code
- AA1431 (octal 52412061)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- July 9, 1999
- Expires
- October 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 24, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Exhibition · May 18, 2005
- FAA region
- New England
- FAA record id
- 00915792
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Collings Foundation
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- PO Box 248
Stow, MA 01775-0248
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 1
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The public federal record on N749CF, 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 Collings Foundation, a corporation, certificate issued July 9, 1999, expires October 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 18, 2005, 40 years after the 1965 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 65-0749 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N749CF according to the deregistered file. [2]
1 loan or lien document received by the registry recently (September 9, 2026). The full title and lien picture is in the FAA aircraft records file. [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N749CF. 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