Canadair Ltd CF-5D
N845PS is a Canadair Ltd CF-5D, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with turbojet engines, built in 1966. It has 2 seats. It is registered to Par Defense Aero LLC, an LLC in Las Vegas, Nevada. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 22, 2025 and expires on May 31, 2032. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated January 21, 2016.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Canadair Ltd
- Model
- CF-5D · all CF-5Ds and related versions
- Serial number
- 116845
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engine
- Power
- Turbojet, 4 motors · Orenda J85-15 · 2,950 lb thrust
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1966
- Transponder code
- AB93C2 (octal 52711702)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- May 22, 2025
- Expires
- May 31, 2032
- Last FAA action
- May 22, 2025
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Exhibition · January 21, 2016
- FAA region
- Western-Pacific
- FAA record id
- 01001698
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Par Defense Aero LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 732 S 6Th St Ste 4668
Las Vegas, NV 89101-6948
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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 N845PS, 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 Par Defense Aero LLC, an LLC, certificate issued May 22, 2025, expires May 31, 2032. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated January 21, 2016, 50 years after the 1966 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 116845 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N845PS 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 N845PS: Accident on July 10, 2026 at Mojave, CA: 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: Canadair LTD CF-5D · operated under 091
On July 10, 2026, about 1103 Pacific daylight time, a Canadair CF-5D, N845PS, was substantially damaged when it was involved in an accident near Mojave, California. The two pilots onboard were not injured. The airplane was operated as a Title 14 Code of Federal Regulations Part 91 instructional flight. The pilot reported that during the landing roll the left engine fire warning system initiated, which was followed by a right engine fire warning. He stated that he performed the emergency procedure and the airplane came to a stop on the runway, at which time both pilots egressed. A witness phot…
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- 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