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Registered aircraft · FAA record as of November 4, 2026Consolidated Vultee PBY-6A
N9825Z is a Consolidated Vultee PBY-6A, a fixed-wing airplane with more than one motor with a piston engine. It has 4 seats. It is registered to Vintage Aircraft Restorations LLC, an LLC in Spokane, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on January 28, 2024 and expires on January 31, 2031. It holds a restricted airworthiness certificate for forest, dated May 2, 1963.
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Aircraft
- Maker
- Consolidated Vultee
- Model
- PBY-6A · all PBY-6As 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 Consolidated Vultee PBY-6 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
- 235
- 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 · P & W R-1830 SERIES · 1350 hp
- Fuel
- 100LL avgas
- Seats
- 4
- Year built
- Not given
- Cruising speed
- 127 mph
- Transponder code
- ADB5B1 (octal 53332661)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Certificate issued
- January 28, 2024
- Expires
- January 31, 2031
- Last FAA action
- January 28, 2024
- Airworthiness
- RestrictedFAA airworthiness class code 3 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). Every aircraft with this code · All codes · ForestFAA certificate purpose code 4 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · May 2, 1963
- FAA region
- Northwest MountainFAA region code S (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 00353720
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Vintage Aircraft Restorations LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). Every aircraft with this code · All codes
- Address
- 820 N Post St Apt 502
Spokane, WA 99201-5078
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Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
Connections how N9825Z links to the rest of the register
- Consolidated Vultee PBY-6 7 registered
- Consolidated Vultee 115 aircraft on the register
- Built of aluminium · as the model family is built; the register does not record it per aircraft
- Pratt & Whitney R-1830 series 116 aircraft with this engine series · 1350 hp
- Vintage Aircraft Restorations LLC 3 aircraft registered to this organisation
- Spokane, WA 289 aircraft registered in this town
- Felts Field · SFF
- Spokane International · GEG
- Washington 10,630 aircraft registered
- Failure reports filed on the Consolidated Vultee PBY-6 1 reports since 1995
- Approved modifications for the Consolidated Vultee PBY-6 7 supplemental type certificates
- Failure reports on the Pratt & Whitney R-1830 series 12 reports since 1995
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The public federal record on N9825Z, 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 Vintage Aircraft Restorations LLC, an LLC, certificate issued January 28, 2024, expires January 31, 2031. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Restricted certificate for forest; the FAA file gives no certificate date and no manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 235 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N9825Z 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 N9825Z. 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 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of November 4, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of November 4, 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 4, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data