North American SNJ-5C
N766CA is a North American SNJ-5C, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1942. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Wright Robert L, a partnership in Canby, Oregon. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 8, 2005 and expires on July 31, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated December 1, 1992.
Aircraft
- Maker
- North American
- Model
- SNJ-5C · all SNJ-5Cs and related versions
- Serial number
- 78-6999
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · P&W R1340 SERIES · 600 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1942
- Cruising speed
- 141 mph
- Transponder code
- AA5805 (octal 52454005)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 8, 2005
- Expires
- July 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 18, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · Normal · December 1, 1992
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 00213317
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Wright Robert L
- Type
- Partnership
- Address
- 9430 S Gribble Rd
Canby, OR 97013-9312 - Co-owners
- Wright Jeffrey C
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.
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The public federal record on N766CA, 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 Wright Robert L, a partnership, certificate issued February 8, 2005, expires July 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated December 1, 1992, 50 years after the 1942 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 78-6999 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N766CA 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 N766CA: Accident on August 14, 1998 at Winlock, WA: fatal, destroyed (2 fatal). 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: North American SNJ-5C · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain adequate altitude during attempted low-level aerobatics.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for SEA98FA164 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