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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of October 23, 2026Ford 5-AT-B
N9684 is a Ford 5-AT-B, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine. It has 17 seats. It is registered to Tri-Motor Heritage Foundation, a corporation in Port Clinton, Ohio. The registration is valid: it was issued on April 29, 2014 and expires on April 30, 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
- Ford
- Model
- 5-AT-B
- Serial number
- 40
- 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, 3 motors
- Seats
- 17
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 91 mph
- Transponder code
- AD7CC2 (octal 53276302)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- April 29, 2014
- Expires
- April 30, 2030
- Last FAA action
- October 20, 2023
- Airworthiness
- None on file
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01029665
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Tri-Motor Heritage 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
- 3515 e State Rd
Port Clinton, OH 43452-2618
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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 N9684 links to the rest of the register
- Ford 10 aircraft on the register
- Tri-Motor Heritage Foundation 1 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Port Clinton, OH 37 aircraft registered in this town
- Erie-Ottawa International · PCW
- Ohio 8,533 aircraft registered
The whole map of how records connect · these connections as data: /graph/aircraft/N9684.json.
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The public federal record on N9684, 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 Tri-Motor Heritage Foundation, a corporation, certificate issued April 29, 2014, expires April 30, 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 40 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N9684 was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Grumman Acft Eng Cor-Schweizer G-164A (serial 1210, cancelled September 1, 2009). 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 N9684: Accident on June 22, 1982 at Jennings, LA: no injuries, substantial damage. Details below. [4]
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NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Grumman G-164A · operated under 137
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- 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
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Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 23, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data