North American F-86F
N8630 is a North American F-86F, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with turbojet engines. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, a government body in Washington, District of Columbia. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 23, 2023 and expires on February 28, 2030. No airworthiness certificate is on file, which is normal for drones and for aircraft still being built or tested.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- North American
- Model
- F-86F · all F-86Fs 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 North American F-86 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
- 524689
- 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
- TurbojetFAA type of engine code 4 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 390 mph
- Transponder code
- ABDC54 (octal 52756124)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- February 23, 2023
- Expires
- February 28, 2030
- Last FAA action
- February 23, 2023
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00945572
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum
- Type
- GovernmentFAA type of owner code 5 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- PO Box 37012
Washington, DC 20013-7012
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.
Connections how N8630 links to the rest of the register
- North American F-86 9 registered
- North American 1,297 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Washington, DC 393 aircraft registered in this town
- Ronald Reagan Washington Ntl Airport · DCA
- Washington Dulles International · IAD
- Washington Manassas/Harry P Davis Field · HEF
- South Capitol Street Heliport · 09W
- District of Columbia 398 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N8630.json.
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N8630, 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 Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, a government body, certificate issued February 23, 2023, expires February 28, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
No airworthiness certificate is on file. Usual for a newly registered aircraft, a project, or an aircraft that has not flown since a change of registration; ask for the certificate. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 524689 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N8630 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 N8630. 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