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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 10, 2026Canadian Car & Foundry HARVARD MK IV
N777BT is a Canadian Car & Foundry HARVARD MK IV, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1943. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Crystal Lake, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on August 21, 2021 and expires on August 31, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated May 24, 2006.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Canadian Car & Foundry
- Model
- HARVARD MK IV · all HARVARD MK IVs and related versions
- Built of
- aluminiumThe airframe is aluminium: sheet metal over a riveted frame, the way most aircraft have been built since the 1940s. This is how the Canadian Car & Foundry HARVARD MK IV family is built; the FAA does not record construction for each aircraft, and the type certificate data sheet is the authority for this one.
- Serial number
- CCF-4-88
- 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 · P&W R1340 SERIES · 600 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1943
- Cruising speed
- 240 mph
- Transponder code
- AA8333 (octal 52501463)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- August 21, 2021
- Expires
- August 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 3, 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 · May 24, 2006
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00224910
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Nikodem James e
- Type
- IndividualFAA type of owner code 1 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 736 Silk Oak Ln
Crystal Lake, IL 60014-4592
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N777BT links to the rest of the register
- Canadian Car & Foundry HARVARD MK IV 52 registered
- Canadian Car & Foundry 56 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Pratt & Whitney R1340 series 1,229 aircraft with this engine series · 600 hp
- Crystal Lake, IL 49 aircraft registered in this town
- Illinois 8,071 aircraft registered
- Failure reports on the Pratt & Whitney R1340 series 58 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N777BT, 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 Nikodem James e, an individual, certificate issued August 21, 2021, expires August 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated May 24, 2006, 63 years after the 1943 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 CCF-4-88 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N777BT 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]
No NTSB investigation records located under N777BT. 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 November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 10, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 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, November 10, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data