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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 6, 2026Consolidated Vultee PBY-5A
N84857 is a Consolidated Vultee PBY-5A, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine, built in 1943. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Pby Memorial Foundation, a corporation in Oak Harbor, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 15, 2010 and expires on October 31, 2027. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for to show compliance with regulations, dated April 13, 1982.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Consolidated Vultee
- Model
- PBY-5A · all PBY-5As 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 Consolidated Vultee PBY-5 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
- 1522
- Type
- Fixed-wing, multi-engineFAA type of aircraft code 5 (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, 2 motors
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- 1943
- Cruising speed
- 127 mph
- Transponder code
- ABA0B8 (octal 52720270)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- June 15, 2010
- Expires
- October 31, 2027
- Last FAA action
- March 24, 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 · To show compliance with regulationsFAA certificate purpose code 0 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · April 13, 1982
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00970212
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Pby Memorial Foundation
- Type
- CorporationFAA type of owner code 3 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- PO Box 941
Oak Harbor, WA 98277-0941
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Earlier use of this number 1
Connections how N84857 links to the rest of the register
- Consolidated Vultee PBY-5 8 registered
- Consolidated Vultee 115 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Pby Memorial Foundation 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Oak Harbor, WA 48 aircraft registered in this town
- Delaurentis Airport · OKH
- Washington 10,644 aircraft registered
- Failure reports filed on the Consolidated Vultee PBY-5 6 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Consolidated Vultee PBY-5 12 supplemental type certificates
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The public federal record on N84857, 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 Pby Memorial Foundation, a corporation, certificate issued June 15, 2010, expires October 31, 2027. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated April 13, 1982, 39 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 1522 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N84857 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Aeronca 7AC (serial 7AC-3576, cancelled June 29, 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 N84857: Accident on May 9, 1985 at Lewistown, MT: fatal, substantial damage (1 fatal). Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Consolidated-Vultee PBY-5A · operated under 091
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 6, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 6, 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 6, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data