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North American TB-25N
N9456Z is a North American TB-25N, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine. It has 6 seats. It is registered to Mid Atlantic Air Museum INC, a corporation in Reading, Pennsylvania. The registration is valid: it was issued on May 20, 1982 and expires on April 30, 2030. It holds a limited airworthiness certificate, dated September 19, 1961.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- North American
- Model
- TB-25N · all TB-25Ns 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 TB-25 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
- 44-29939
- 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 · Wright C14AB AC BA · 1700 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 6
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 159 mph
- Transponder code
- AD22FD (octal 53221375)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- May 20, 1982
- Expires
- April 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 20, 2023
- Airworthiness
- LimitedFAA airworthiness class code 2 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · September 19, 1961
- FAA region
- EasternFAA region code 1 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00470071
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Mid Atlantic Air Museum INC
- 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
- 11 Museum Dr
Reading, PA 19605
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 N9456Z links to the rest of the register
- North American TB-25 22 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
- Wright C14AB AC BA 28 aircraft with this engine series · 1700 hp
- Mid Atlantic Air Museum INC 6 aircraft in the fleet
- Reading, PA 142 aircraft registered in this town
- Reading Rgnl/Carl A Spaatz Field · RDG
- Pennsylvania 6,195 aircraft registered
- Failure reports filed on the North American TB-25 5 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the North American TB-25 1 supplemental type certificates
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The public federal record on N9456Z, 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 Mid Atlantic Air Museum INC, a corporation, certificate issued May 20, 1982, expires April 30, 2030. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Limited certificate; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 44-29939 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N9456Z 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 N9456Z: Accident on May 10, 1997 at Midland, VA: 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 B-25J · operated under 091
The pilot's misjudgment of distance and altitude during the final approach. A factor in the accident was the exposed runway lip/edge.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 12, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through October 28, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, November 12, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data