North American SNJ-5
N7861B is a North American SNJ-5, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1959. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Plane Crazy Aviation LLC, an LLC in Fargo, North Dakota. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 24, 2018 and expires on May 31, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate, dated November 23, 1959.
Aircraft
- Maker
- North American
- Model
- SNJ-5 · all SNJ-5s and related versions
- Serial number
- 43736
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · P&W R1340 SERIES · 600 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1959
- Cruising speed
- 141 mph
- Transponder code
- AAA94D (octal 52524515)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 24, 2018
- Expires
- May 31, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 12, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Standard · November 23, 1959
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00561943
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Plane Crazy Aviation LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 3141 39Th St S
Fargo, ND 58104-8600
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 N7861B, 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 Plane Crazy Aviation LLC, an LLC, certificate issued May 24, 2018, expires May 31, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Standard certificate, dated November 23, 1959, consistent with the 1959 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 43736 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N7861B was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Consolidated Vultee PBY-6A (serial 64007, cancelled September 11, 1970). 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 N7861B: Accident on January 16, 2009 at Merritt Island, FL: 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: North American SNJ-5 · operated under 091
The pilot's failure to maintain aircraft control during landing in windy conditions.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for ERA09CA135 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
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