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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026North American HARVARD II A
N96281 is a North American HARVARD II A, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1976. It has 2 seats. It is registered to American Airpower Heritage Fly Museu, a corporation in Dallas, Texas. The registration is valid: it was issued on September 10, 1991 and expires on April 30, 2028. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated November 3, 1988.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- North American
- Model
- HARVARD II A · all HARVARD II As 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 HARVARD II A 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
- 3832
- 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
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). Every aircraft with this code · All codes, 1 motor
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 1976
- Transponder code
- AD671E (octal 53263436)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- September 10, 1991
- Expires
- April 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- May 5, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · November 3, 1988
- FAA region
- SouthwesternFAA region code 2 (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00014300
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- American Airpower Heritage Fly Museu
- 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 764769
Dallas, TX 75376-4769
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N96281 links to the rest of the register
- North American HARVARD II A 5 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
- American Airpower Heritage Fly Museu 20 aircraft in the fleet
- Dallas, TX 1,858 aircraft registered in this town
- Addison Airport · ADS
- Dallas Executive · RBD
- Dallas Love Field · DAL
- Mckinney Ntl Airport · TKI
- 3 more landing places in town
- Texas 29,911 aircraft registered
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The public federal record on N96281, 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 American Airpower Heritage Fly Museu, a corporation, certificate issued September 10, 1991, expires April 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated November 3, 1988, 12 years after the 1976 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 3832 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N96281 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 N96281. 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 October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 23, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 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 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data