Grumman TBM-3E
N81865 is a Grumman TBM-3E, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1945. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Tbm Avenger INC, a corporation in Peru, Illinois. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 16, 2019 and expires on May 31, 2029. It holds a limited airworthiness certificate, dated August 22, 1991.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Grumman
- Model
- TBM-3E · all TBM-3Es and related versions
- Serial number
- 5632
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · Wright R-2600 SER · 1700 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1945
- Cruising speed
- 266 mph
- Transponder code
- AB2A5C (octal 52625134)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 16, 2019
- Expires
- May 31, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 4, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Limited · August 22, 1991
- FAA region
- Great Lakes
- FAA record id
- 00304661
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Tbm Avenger INC
- Type
- Corporation
- Address
- 4230 Ed Urban Dr
Peru, IL 61354
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 · 3 to understand · 2 clear
The public federal record on N81865, 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 Tbm Avenger INC, a corporation, certificate issued May 16, 2019, expires May 31, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 22, 1991, 46 years after the 1945 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 5632 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N81865 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Aeronca 7AC (serial 7AC-488, cancelled June 30, 1949). 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 N81865: Accident on August 2, 1984 at Fort Worth, TX: 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: Rockwell 690B · operated under 091
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for FTW84FA335 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