Chance Vought F4U-7
N965CV is a Chance Vought F4U-7, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1952. It has 1 seat. It is registered to Ba 1945 LLC, an LLC in Wilmington, Delaware. The registration is valid: it was issued on February 25, 2015 and expires on February 29, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for exhibition, dated October 27, 2004.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Chance Vought
- Model
- F4U-7 · all F4U-7s and related versions
- Serial number
- 965
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating), 1 motor · P & W R-2800 SERIES · 2000 hp
- Seats
- 1
- Year built
- 1952
- Cruising speed
- 337 mph
- Transponder code
- AD6EFF (octal 53267377)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- February 25, 2015
- Expires
- February 29, 2028
- Last FAA action
- April 21, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Exhibition · October 27, 2004
- FAA region
- Eastern
- FAA record id
- 00121279
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Ba 1945 LLC
- Type
- LLC
- Address
- 3511 Silverside Rd Ste 105
Wilmington, DE 19810-4902
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.
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The public federal record on N965CV, 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 Ba 1945 LLC, an LLC, certificate issued February 25, 2015, expires February 29, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated October 27, 2004, 52 years after the 1952 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 965 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N965CV 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 N965CV: Accident on May 14, 2019 at Jerome, ID: minor 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: Vought F4U-7 · operated under 091
The pilot’s decision to fly the airplane with a known mechanical deficiency.
Search the NTSB's CAROL system for WPR19LA157 for the docket and final report. Open CAROL
- 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